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South Holland, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60473. The Survey maps it on the Calumet City quadrangle. 21,465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

South Holland within Cook County

Population over time

3 figures

South Holland grew from 1,005 to 21,465 between 1890 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
18901,005
201022,030
202021,465-565 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Holland: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Yard R Clay PitClayProducer
Brownell Improvement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City of Calumet - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Holland in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSouth Holland-Multiple large trees were blown down.
September 2008FloodSouth Holland-The Little Calumet River reached the third highest crest on record, 20.16 feet, at South Holland on the 15th. Many roads were flooded near the river.
June 2012HailSouth Holland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Thornton Junction0.8 miles27
Greenwood1.3 miles27
Phoenix1.6 miles25
Berger1.8 miles27
Harvey2.2 miles25
Thornton2.3 miles27
North Harvey2.3 miles25
Globe2.5 miles27

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 South HollandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q404614The 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 418788. 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.