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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.

Sleepy Hollow within Kane County

Population over time

2 figures

Sleepy 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,304
20203,214-90 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

4,451 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 Dundee Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dundee Township - 4,451 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elgin City PitStonePast Producer
Algonquin PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beverly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carpentersville Pit #25Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dundee Pit Meyer MaterialSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dundee Pit Road Mat'Ls CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dundee S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elgin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hoffman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mc Graw Pit Meyer MaterialSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-A photo from broadcast media showed an evergreen tree uprooted near Sleepy Hollow.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-A tree was down and blocking the road near Sleepy Hollow Road and Boncosky Rd in Sleepy Hollow.
July 2024FloodSleepy Hollow-Multiple reports of street flooding in and near Elgin were received.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-A large oak tree was snapped at its base.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-Several trees were blown down in the Sleepy Hollow and West Dundee area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-Large tree limbs were blown down and a large tree was uprooted near Beau Brummel Drive and Sleepy Hollow Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-A large tree was uprooted.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSleepy Hollow-A tree was blown down on Tower Hill Road.
June 2009HailSleepy Hollow-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported near mile marker 48 on Interstate 90.
July 2017HailSleepy Hollow-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
West Dundee1.1 miles20
East Dundee1.7 miles20
Almora2.9 miles20
Carpentersville3.0 miles20
Illinois Park3.2 miles20
Binnie Lakes3.4 miles20
Binnie Hills3.7 miles20
Gilberts3.8 miles20

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 HollowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2050423The 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.