Park City, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Waukegan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60085. The Survey maps it on the Libertyville quadrangle. 7,885 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPark City grew from 7,570 to 7,885 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,570 | |
| 2020 | 7,885 | +315 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Libertyville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Libertyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Libertyville quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
14,048 words on this townshipThe Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Waukegan Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Waukegan Township - 14,048 words.
Fires near this place
8 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Park City between 2003 and 2018, burning about 452 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 9118 |
| 1 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 8118 |
| 9 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DEC-79 |
| 8 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-2269 |
| 10 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12_2571 |
| 1 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 60118 |
| 8 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-1522 |
| 28 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 450 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | ZION |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Park City: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, Iodine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotts North Chicago Iodine Plant | Iodine | Plant | ||
| Fansteel #1 Tantalum Plant | Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten | Producer | ||
| Economy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gurnee Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gurnee Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lake County Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lake County Pit No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wadsworth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park City in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Flood | Park City | - | A few inches of standing water on the road were reported on the west side of Waukegan. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Park City | - | A photo shared on social media showed quarter size hail in Park City. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Park City | - | Route 41 was closed near Route 120 due to flooding. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spaulding Corners | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Gurnee | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Chittenden | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Waukegan | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Wells Corners | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| North Chicago | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Five Points | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Sherman Corners | 3.2 miles | 19 |
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 Park City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575602 | The 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 415381. 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.








