Sleepy Hollow, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Dundee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60118. It stands on Jelkes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elgin quadrangle. 3,214 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresSleepy Hollow fell from 3,304 to 3,214 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 | 3,304 | |
| 2020 | 3,214 | -90 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 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 quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,451 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 Dundee Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Dundee Township - 4,451 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 Sleepy Hollow: 6 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | ||
| Algonquin Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Beverly Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Carpentersville Pit #25 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee Pit Meyer Material | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee Pit Road Mat'Ls Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee S & G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Elgin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hoffman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mc Graw Pit Meyer Material | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sleepy Hollow in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | A photo from broadcast media showed an evergreen tree uprooted near Sleepy Hollow. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | A tree was down and blocking the road near Sleepy Hollow Road and Boncosky Rd in Sleepy Hollow. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Sleepy Hollow | - | Multiple reports of street flooding in and near Elgin were received. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | A large oak tree was snapped at its base. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | Several trees were blown down in the Sleepy Hollow and West Dundee area. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | Large tree limbs were blown down and a large tree was uprooted near Beau Brummel Drive and Sleepy Hollow Road. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | A large tree was uprooted. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sleepy Hollow | - | A tree was blown down on Tower Hill Road. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Sleepy Hollow | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported near mile marker 48 on Interstate 90. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Sleepy Hollow | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Dundee | 1.1 miles | 20 | |
| East Dundee | 1.7 miles | 20 | |
| Almora | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Carpentersville | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Illinois Park | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Binnie Lakes | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Binnie Hills | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Gilberts | 3.8 miles | 20 |
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 Sleepy Hollow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2050423 | 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 418598. 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.










