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Northfield, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Northfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60093. It stands on Skokie River. The Survey maps it on the Park Ridge quadrangle. 5,751 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Northfield within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Northfield grew from 5,420 to 5,751 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,420
20205,751+331 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Northfield: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Glencoe City Engr. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northfield in 13 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2014Thunderstorm WindNorth Northfield1 killedA large tree was blown down striking and killing a bicyclist on a bike trail.
September 2008FloodNorth Northfield$5,000,000Officials in Des Plaines urged residents along the Des Plaines River to evacuate as waters rose to near record levels. An estimated 25 residents of the Big Bend Drive area were rescued by firefighters using boats. Other rescues occurred on Berry Lane and Mill Street. River Road was closed through Des Plaines and Mt. Prospect. Many roads in River Forest were closed.
October 2006Flash FloodNorthfield$250,000Edens Expressway closed near Willow Road from flooding, 2.74 inches of rain measured in Northbrook. Five inches of water covered the intersection of Talcott and Stephens in Lemont. Three to Eight inches of water was reported on Interstate 55 at mile marker 275 in Burr Ridge. Street flooding was reported on Hiawatha and Lehigh roads in Chicago. In Cicero, street flooding was reported with water up to 3 feet deep. Basement flooding was also reported. Storm total rainfall was 3.80 inches in Burbank and 2.62 inches in Barrington.
March 2023FloodNorthfield-Traffic was stopped at the underpass at I-94 and Winnetka Rd due to flooding.
April 2023HailNorthfield-Most hail was penny size with the largest hail roughly ping pong ball size.
July 2022Funnel CloudNorthfield-Multiple funnel cloud reports were received from the Northfield and Northbrook areas, including from the O'Hare Airport control tower, an airline pilot and the public. It appears there was just one well developed funnel cloud that persisted for several minutes and observed by multiple people.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorthfield-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Northfield. One tree fell onto a house and another tree fell onto a car. Most of the damage was located in the vicinity of Dickens Road, Riverside Drive, Winnetka Road and Stockton Road.
July 2016Flash FloodNorthfield-Traffic standstill on Interstate 94 at Winnetka Rd. Flooded roads have forced people onto roofs of cars.
August 2016Flash FloodNorthfield-Both directions of Edens Expressway closed due to flooding at Winnetka Road.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Northfield-There were two reports of winds estimated to 70 mph near Northbrook. Tree tops were bent horizontally.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Northfield-A large tree limb was blown off a willow tree near the 2700 block of Sanders Road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNorthfield-no account filed
April 2004HailNorthfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Willowbrook Acres1.3 miles19
DorothyStirling Estates1.4 miles19
Homefinders1.4 miles19
Kimberleigh1.4 miles19
Royal Ridge1.5 miles19
Sunset Court1.5 miles19
Driftwood1.6 miles19
Northbrook Greens1.6 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on NorthfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1014178The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 414696. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.