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Oak Park, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Oak Park Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60302. It lies near Players Hill. The Survey maps it on the River Forest quadrangle. 54,583 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Oak Park within Cook County

On record in Oak Park

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 12 of 16 shown

Every listing in Cook County

Population over time

3 figures

Oak Park grew from 19,444 to 54,583 between 1910 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
191019,444
201051,878
202054,583+2,705 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oak Park: 3 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
Grand and Campbell Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Park$3,000As many as 50 large tree limbs were blown down along with power lines in Oak Park. A couple entire trees were also blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOak Park$1,000Several tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOak Park-A picture was received of a roughly 6-inch diameter tree limb that had snapped.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Numerous trees were uprooted and windows were blown out near Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue. Shingles were blown off a church roof along Lake Street.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Photo shared via social media showed a large tree limb which had been blown down in Oak Park. Time was estimated using radar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Tree damage was reported.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Half of a tree was snapped at its fork.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Oak Park. More than a dozen streets were blocked by the fallen tree limbs.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOak Park-Several large trees blown down in Oak Park.

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
Austin1.1 miles26
Forest Park1.6 miles26
River Forest1.8 miles26
Moreland2.1 miles24
Mandell2.2 miles26
Berwyn2.4 miles24
Hanson Park2.6 miles26
Whiskey Point2.7 miles26

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q331397The 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 414842. 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.