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Roselle, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bloomingdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60172. The Survey maps it on the Lombard quadrangle. 22,897 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Roselle within DuPage County

Population over time

2 figures

Roselle grew from 22,763 to 22,897 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
201022,763
202022,897+134 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

2,683 words on this township

History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bloomingdale Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bloomingdale Township - 2,683 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Roselle in 2014, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Roselle: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hoffman Estates City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ajax PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curtis S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mallard Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meachum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roselle in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
June 2005LightningRoselle1 killed, 1 hurtTwo people were struck by lightning in their backyard. A 15 year old male was taken to the hospital where he died. A 51 year old male recovered from his injuries.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRoselle1 hurtno account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRoselle$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2016Flash FloodRoselle$1,000Irving Park Rd, which is Rt. 19, closed due to flooding. Part of the Rt. 390 frontage road near Irving Park Rd and Wright Boulevard with up to 1 foot of water covering it.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRoselle$500A large pine tree was uprooted and multiple tree limbs were snapped off trees. Shingles were blown off a roof.
June 2022Tornado (EF0)Roselle-A tornado with peak winds of 80 mph which touched down in Cook County, crossed Devon Avenue into DuPage County. The tornado produced only sporadic tree damage in DuPage County as it moved southeast. The tornado lifted between Sunnyside Road and Turner Avenue, just west of Lake Park East High School.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRoselle-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Roselle in DuPage County. Many roads were blocked by fallen trees. One tree fell onto a house causing structural damage.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRoselle-A large tree was snapped along Maple Avenue.
August 2015HailRoselle-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in Roselle.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindRoselle-Trees were blown down.
July 2003HailRoselle-Reported at Central Avenue and Garden Avenue.
May 2003HailRoselle-no account filed
August 2003HailRoselle-no account filed
April 1996HailRoselle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Medinah1.5 miles19
Bloomingdale1.9 miles19
Keeneyville2.5 miles19
Hanover Park3.6 miles20
Ontarioville3.7 miles20
Cloverdale3.8 miles19
Itasca3.9 miles19
Swift4.9 miles19

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 RoselleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2508487The 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 422020. 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.