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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.

Prestbury within Kane County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Prestbury 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,722
20201,657-65 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

89 words on this township

History 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 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Mound Pit, Site #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elburn Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Feltes Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Feltes Plant No. 7 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fox Valley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kane County Hwy. Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kane County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kane Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kuglee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

12 since 2023

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Flash FloodPrestbury$15,000An estimated 20 structures were flooded in southern Kane County, specifically in the Aurora and Montgomery areas, amounting to roughly $15,000 in damages.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-Multiple little trees roughly 5 inches in diameter were snapped in half at the Spring Bluff nursery in Sugar Grove.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-Power lines were downed along Norris Rd in Sugar Grove.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-Trees were down on houses and blocking roads near Tanner Rd and Terrace Dr near North Aurora.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-A tree was down and blocking the road at Hankes Rd and Densmore Rd in western Aurora.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-A tree was down and blocking Winthrop New Rd in Prestbury.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-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 2025Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-Multiple trees were down along Bliss Rd northeast of Sugar Grove.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-A large tree had been blown down onto a car on the west side of Aurora off of Orchard Rd.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-Power lines were blown down near Herget Middle School.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindPrestbury-A semi truck was blown over on I-88 near the junction at IL-56.
April 2023HailPrestbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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
Sugar Grove2.0 miles13
Tanner Woods2.3 miles13
Blackberry Woods3.0 miles13
Exposition View4.0 miles15
Nottingham Woods4.1 miles13
Randall Hills4.3 miles15
Bald Mound4.4 miles13
Willow Creek4.4 miles13

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 PrestburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7241762The 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.