BlockBefore

Stickney, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stickney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60402. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle. 7,110 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Stickney within Cook County

On record in Stickney

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Stickney grew from 6,786 to 7,110 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
20106,786
20207,110+324 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Stickney in 2005, burning about 1 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/undetermined2

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
7 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook 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 Stickney: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Dolese and Shepard Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stickney in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindStickney-A brick wall of a building partially collapsed near the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Powell Avenue. No injuries were reported.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindStickney-A photo showed a large tree limb blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindStickney-Power lines were blown down next to a gas station on Ogden Avenue, causing two main gas lines to ignite. The resulting fire spread to a nearby tree before the gas line eventually exploded. The explosion caused the adjacent gas station building to collapse and also shattered windows in nearby residences and businesses.
July 2023Heavy RainStickney-A member of the public recorded 5.27 inches of rain in Berwyn from the start of the day through roughly 11:30 AM CST.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStickney-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Stickney. Some trees fell onto cars, including a tree that fell on a car in the 3800 block of Wenonah Avenue. Both front and back windows were shattered and the car was dented. Structural damage was reported to a hobby shop on Ogden Avenue. A tree fell onto a house near 40th Street and Euclid Avenue and a large tree was uprooted at 39th Street and Elmwood Avenue.
June 2014Flash FloodStickney-Two to three feet of standing water was present on southbound I-55 between Central Avenue and County Line Road with only the right lane passable. A COOP observer three miles southwest of Midway Airport measured 2.78 inches of rain.
June 2013Flash FloodStickney-The exit ramp from southbound I-55 to Cicero Avenue was flooded and closed. An observer approximately four miles northeast measured an inch of rain in 15 minutes. A public report of 0.95 inches in 17 minutes was received from Berwyn.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindStickney-Numerous trees were blown down throughout the city with some large trees blown down.
March 2026HailStickney-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
Lavergne1.0 miles24
Forest View1.0 miles24
Glenn1.2 miles24
Clyde1.5 miles24
Lyons2.0 miles24
Archer Limits2.1 miles26
Berwyn2.1 miles24
LeClaire Courts2.1 miles26

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 StickneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2081638The 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 419135. 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.