Prestbury, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sugar Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60554. It stands on Prestbury Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Grove quadrangle. 1,657 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.
On record in Prestbury
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Ephraim Smith Houselisted 1980 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresPrestbury fell from 1,722 to 1,657 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 | 1,722 | |
| 2020 | 1,657 | -65 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1932 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Sugar Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Sugar Grove quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
89 words on this townshipHistory of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Sugar Grove Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Sugar Grove Township - 89 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Prestbury: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Mound Pit, Site #5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Elburn Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Feltes Pit No. 6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Feltes Plant No. 7 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fox Valley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Harker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kane County Hwy. Dept. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kane County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kane Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kuglee Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prestbury in 12 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Prestbury | $15,000 | An estimated 20 structures were flooded in southern Kane County, specifically in the Aurora and Montgomery areas, amounting to roughly $15,000 in damages. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | Multiple little trees roughly 5 inches in diameter were snapped in half at the Spring Bluff nursery in Sugar Grove. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | Power lines were downed along Norris Rd in Sugar Grove. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | Trees were down on houses and blocking roads near Tanner Rd and Terrace Dr near North Aurora. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | A tree was down and blocking the road at Hankes Rd and Densmore Rd in western Aurora. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | A tree was down and blocking Winthrop New Rd in Prestbury. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | Based on information provided by Aurora emergency management, extensive storm damage was reported across Aurora with the Aurora Police and Streets Departments having collectively received well over 100 reports for tree and power line damage. The highest concentration of reports came out of the west side of town, particularly in the area bound by Prairie St and Indian Trail Rd to the south and north and Edgelawn Dr and Highland Ave to the west and east, respectively. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | Multiple trees were down along Bliss Rd northeast of Sugar Grove. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | A large tree had been blown down onto a car on the west side of Aurora off of Orchard Rd. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | Power lines were blown down near Herget Middle School. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestbury | - | A semi truck was blown over on I-88 near the junction at IL-56. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Prestbury | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Grove | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Tanner Woods | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Blackberry Woods | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Exposition View | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Nottingham Woods | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Randall Hills | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bald Mound | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Willow Creek | 4.4 miles | 13 |
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 Prestbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7241762 | 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 2629892. 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.






