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Oak Brook, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60523. The Survey maps it on the Hinsdale quadrangle. 8,163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Oak Brook within DuPage County

On record in Oak Brook

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Brook grew from 7,883 to 8,163 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
20107,883
20208,163+280 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

2,155 words on this township

History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on York Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on York Township - 2,155 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oak Brook in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oak Brook: 7 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Downers Grove City PitStonePast Producer
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wester Springs City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Brook in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
March 2026HailOak Brook-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in Oak Brook.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down along Adams Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-An eight inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-A five inch diameter tree was sheared off, approximately 30 feet in length.
April 2011HailOak Brook-Penny to nickel size hail was reported from a storm that moved across Oak Brook and Elmhurst.
August 2011HailOak Brook-Hail up to quarter size fell near Butterfield Road and 22nd Street.
June 2010HailOak Brook-Nickel size hail was reported near mile marker 135 on Interstate 88.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-Tree limbs were blown down blocking Midwest Road south of Interstate 88.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Brook-Several large tree limbs, six inches in diameter, were blown down near Interstate 88 and Midwest Road.
April 2006HailOak Brook-Quarter size hail was reported near Interstate 294 and Cermak Road.
April 2014HailOak Brook-no account filed
June 2010HailOak Brook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Fullersburg1.2 miles23
Mammoth Springs1.8 miles23
Oakbrook Terrace2.2 miles23
Hinsdale2.2 miles23
Yorkfield2.3 miles23
Utopia2.6 miles23
Clarendon Hills2.8 miles23
South Elmhurst3.4 miles23

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 Oak BrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935479The 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 421977. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.