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Orland Park, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Orland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60462. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. 58,703 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Orland Park within Cook County

On record in Orland 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Orland Park grew from 56,767 to 58,703 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
201056,767
202058,703+1,936 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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.

Storms near this place

35 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orland Park in 35 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 flash flood. 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 WindOrland Park$50,000A microburst began near the railroad tracks just east of Southwest Highway about one quarter mile south of 135th Street. The microburst widened, causing a damage path one quarter mile wide and about one third mile long. The microburst blew down numerous trees in the area of Carolina Lane, 92nd Avenue, Elm Street, and 137th and 138th Streets. Trees fell on rooftops, shingles were blown off a shed, there was damage to eaves of homes and there was porch and eave damage due to falling trees and tree limbs. Power lines were also downed due to falling tree limbs.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Orland Park$30,000A tornado touched down along the south side of 135th Street, one block east of LaGrange Road. It moved southeast through the neighborhood along Howe Drive snapping off numerous tree tops, downing three or four large trees, blowing down a fence, sending a gazebo swirling 30 feet into the air before depositing it in a neighbor's yard and damaging a roof on an auto shop along Southwest Highway. A car was also damaged by a falling tree limb. At this point, the weakening tornado was wiped out by a microburst as it crossed the railroad trucks just east of Southwest Highway about a quarter mile south of 135th Street.
April 2025FloodOrland Park-A few reports of street flooding were received from the Orland Park and Oak Forest areas.
May 2024FloodOrland Park-Street flooding was reported.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-An 8 inch diameter tree limb was broken.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-A wind gust to 60 mph was measured.
May 2020Flash FloodOrland Park-Will-Cook Road was closed between 151st Street and 159th Street due to flooding.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Orland Park. A fence was damaged in the Catalina subdivision.
April 2020FloodOrland Park-Flooding caused 143rd Street to be closed west of Wolf Road.
April 2020FloodOrland Park-A low lying area of Route 7 was closed near Route 45 due to flooding.
May 2019FloodOrland Park-Wolf Road was closed due to flooding between 151st and 143rd Streets.
April 2011HailOrland Park-Penny size hail was reported in Orland Park.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-Estimated gust to 65 mph.
July 2006Funnel CloudOrland Park-A funnel cloud was reported near 179th and Lagrange Road.
July 2006Flash FloodOrland Park-Cars had to be pushed out of deep standing flood waters.
March 2005HailOrland Park-Penny sized hail was reported in Orland Park at the intersection of 82nd Ave. and 143rd St, 1830-1835 CST.Nickel sized hail was reported in Chicago Ridge, 1830-1830 CST.Nickel sized hail was reported in Oak Lawn at the intersection of 115th St. and Central Ave., 1832-1837 CST.Penny sized hail was reported in Bridgeview, 1835-1840 CST.Nickel sized hail was reported in Evergreen Park, 1843-1848 CST.
June 2004Flash FloodOrland Park-Three feet of water was reported on 104th Avenue and 159th Street.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded on an anemometer.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-Thunderstorm winds caused damage around the intersection of Wolf Road and 159th Street. Two stoplights were blown down and 3 power poles were snapped. There was extensive tree damage in a two block area mainly northwest of the intersection. Slate shingles from an old historic schoolhouse on 159th were blown across the road. Some of the shingles broke windows or became inbedded in a truck and van. A bank building also had some roof damage and a metal pole building northeast of the intersection was damaged.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-Strong winds caused roof and tree damage to homes or businesses in Orland Park, Country Club HIlls and Tinley Park. A wind gust of 65 mph was reported at Orland Park. A 58 mph wind gust was recorded at the Lansing, IL AWOS. A very intense downburst or possibly a gustnado produced F0-F1 intensity damage for about a 2 mile long and 50 yard wide path through Lynwood, from Stoney Island Road to Burnham Road, parallel to and about 1/2 mile north of Glenwood-Dyer Road. Several businesses had roof damage west of Lynwood. In a subdivision in Lynwood about 30 homes sustained some damage. Mostly shingles removed, antennas down, windows broken, tree limbs down, gutters and awnings damages. Two houses at Lakewood and 201st had about half the roof torn of, a church had roof damage and a bell tower damaged. About half dozen other houses had small sections of the roof peeled off.
March 2026HailOrland Park-no account filed
March 2026HailOrland Park-no account filed
May 2024HailOrland Park-no account filed
May 2024HailOrland Park-no account filed
February 2017HailOrland Park-no account filed
July 2015HailOrland Park-no account filed
June 2012HailOrland Park-no account filed
May 2006HailOrland Park-no account filed
May 2003LightningOrland Park-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOrland Park-no account filed
May 1997HailOrland Park-no account filed
April 1996HailOrland Park-no account filed
April 1996HailOrland Park-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
Southmoor2.0 miles27
Palos Park2.8 miles27
Orland Hills3.2 miles24
Fernway Park3.2 miles24
Alpine3.4 miles23
Goeselville3.7 miles24
Palos Heights4.0 miles27
Fernway4.5 miles24

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 Orland ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013520The 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 415178. 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.

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.