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.
Population over time
2 figuresRoselle 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 22,763 | |
| 2020 | 22,897 | +134 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1908 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,683 words on this townshipHistory 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 2014Regional 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-357 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman Estates City Eng.-Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ajax Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Curtis S&G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mallard Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Meachum Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Lightning | Roselle | 1 killed, 1 hurt | Two 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roselle | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roselle | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Roselle | $1,000 | Irving 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roselle | $500 | A large pine tree was uprooted and multiple tree limbs were snapped off trees. Shingles were blown off a roof. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roselle | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roselle | - | A large tree was snapped along Maple Avenue. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Roselle | - | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in Roselle. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roselle | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Roselle | - | Reported at Central Avenue and Garden Avenue. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Roselle | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Roselle | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Roselle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medinah | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bloomingdale | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Keeneyville | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Hanover Park | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Ontarioville | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Cloverdale | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Itasca | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Swift | 4.9 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 Roselle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2508487 | 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 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.









