Pingree Grove, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rutland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60140. The Survey maps it on the Pingree Grove quadrangle. 10,365 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresPingree Grove grew from 4,532 to 10,365 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 | 4,532 | |
| 2020 | 10,365 | +5,833 (+129%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1925 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Pingree Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Pingree Grove quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
689 words on this townshipHistory of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Rutland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
They boarded with Starks and Rich wiien they first arrived. In 1838 Andrew McCornack arrived with his family. He died in 1875 at the age of ninety years. In 1838 Wilham Moore and William Lynch, who were brothers-inlaw, located in the western part of the township. A man named Seymour was living near there at that time. Francis and Straw Pingree came in the fall of 1837, and in the spring of 1838 Andrew and Daniel Pingree arrived. The grove near their settlement acquired the name "Pingree Grove," and has since been known by that name. A considerable village has grown up there in the last thirty years. Andrew Pingree was a minister of the gospel, and a native of New Hampshire. In 1838 there were but three cabins along the road. John Hunter was a native of Ireland and came to America in 183.^ and settled in Rutland township in 1842. He was an enthusiastic republican and a leader of the strong Irish Presbyterian sentiment in the township.
Passage source: History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908.
Gilbert Station was laid out and platted by Andrew Pingree and Elijah Wilcox in 1855. John Kelley acted as express agent and postmaster. He was afterward county sheriff. The first postmaster was John Mann, who was succeeded in the office by John McGraw, Nicholas Freeman and John Martin. The village of Pingree Grove was platted and laid out by Daniel and Hannah Pingree in 1882, and is now a village of five himdred or six hundred inhabitants.
Passage source: History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Rutland Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pingree Grove in 2003, burning about 105 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 75 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pingree Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elgin City Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pingree Grove in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | $10,000 | Twenty utility poles were snapped at the base. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | $2,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph. Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | A tree was down and blocking a road south of Pingree Grove. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | Photos shared on social media showed several tree limbs 6 to 12 inches in diameter blown down along with damage to a greenhouse. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | One inch diameter tree limbs were blown down along with shingles blown off a roof. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | A wind gust to 78 mph was measured on a home weather station. Tree limbs 3 to 5 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | A two-foot diameter tree was blown down on Highway 20. Other trees were blown down blocking the west bound lane. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pingree Grove | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McQueen | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Wildwood Valley | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Udina | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Starks | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Highland Haven | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| North Plato | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hidden Lakes | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Plato Center | 3.0 miles | 17 |
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 Pingree Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q960540 | 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 415712. 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.









