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Streamwood, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60107. The Survey maps it on the Streamwood quadrangle. 39,577 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Streamwood within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Streamwood fell from 39,858 to 39,577 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
201039,858
202039,577-281 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Streamwood 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/undetermined1

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
10 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Streamwood: 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hoffman Estates City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beverly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammonds Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mallard Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mc Graw Pit Meyer MaterialSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Route 20 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Bartlett Plant Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Streamwood in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 flood, 2 tornado. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStreamwood$100,000Large trees down all over town, some on cars and houses.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindStreamwood$75,000Several trained spotters estimated winds between 50 and 65 mph near Hoffman Estates with a mesonet site measuring 71 mph wind gusts. Tree limbs were blown down. A wooden frame building under construction collapsed near the intersection of Barrington Road and Schaumburg Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindStreamwood$15,000A tree fell onto two cars.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStreamwood$10,000Severe winds damaged the roof of a plumbing company causing a gas leak and scattering roofing material and bricks around the area.
February 2024Tornado (EF0)Streamwood-This tornado touched down just west of Sutton Road and north of Golf Road in the Carl Hansen Woods of the Arthur L. Janura Preserve, initially producing tree damage and peeling part of the roof off of a picnic shelter. The tornado may have lifted temporarily as it tracked northeast through the preserve toward Bartlett Road and Shoe Factory Road, but access to these forest preserve areas was limited. Along Higgins Road, roof and fascia damage was noted to several buildings in an office complex before the tornado caused damage at Goebbert`s Farm across the road. In the subdivision to the northeast of the farm, a few trees were uprooted along Star Lane. The tornado then moved into The Glen subdivision, where it produced a swath of concentrated tree damage and damaged roofs and chimneys at a few residences as it reached its peak width. The tornado then produced tree damage along and north of Mundhank Road before it dissipated as it entered the Terra Vita Estates subdivision.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Streamwood including in the 700 block of Oriole Drive, the 700 block of Surrey Drive and on Victoria Lane.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Large trees and tree limbs were blown down along Golf Road between Rohrssen Road and Route 59.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Multiple trees were uprooted.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Several trees were damaged in the Arthur L. Janura Forest Preserve. Large tree limbs were blown down onto parts of the bike path.
June 2022Funnel CloudStreamwood-A funnel cloud was reported near Route 58 and Route 59.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Widespread tree damage occurred across much of Streamwood, including trees snapped and uprooted and power lines blown down. Numerous medium size tree limbs were blown down near Tanglewood Drive, south of Schaumburg Road.
June 2022Tornado (EF0)Streamwood-A tornado with peak winds of 75 mph touched down just southeast of the intersection of Golf and Bartlett Roads. The tornado produced only tree damage as it moved southeast through a wooded area. The tornado lifted south of Poplar Creek.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Wind gusts were measured to 66 mph.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph near Barrington and Schaumburg Roads.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
April 2009FloodStreamwood-Some roads in Streamwood were partially covered by flood waters.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Downburst winds produced tree damage north of Irving Park Road and west of Barrington Road. One tree was uprooted, one was snapped at the trunk and several large limbs were blown down. An observer measured a wind gust to 75 mph before his equipment stopped working.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Estimated gust to 70 mph.
August 2007FloodStreamwood-Flooding on many roads with water eight to ten inches deep on parts of Park Blvd.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-At Streamwood High School.
May 2004Flash FloodStreamwood-Street flooding was reported with water covering Woodlawn Heights and Park Roads.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindStreamwood-Winds gusts of 60 to 70 mph blew through the north suburbs knocking down tree limbs.
April 2023HailStreamwood-no account filed
June 2019HailStreamwood-no account filed
April 2010HailStreamwood-no account filed
April 2010HailStreamwood-no account filed
April 2010HailStreamwood-no account filed
September 2006HailStreamwood-no account filed
May 2004HailStreamwood-no account filed
May 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
May 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
August 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
August 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
August 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
August 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
August 2003HailStreamwood-no account filed
May 2000HailStreamwood-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
Bartlett2.1 miles20
Sherwood Oaks2.5 miles20
Spaulding3.4 miles20
Sutton4.9 miles20
Schaumburg5.1 miles22
Hoffman Estates5.4 miles22
South Barrington5.4 miles22
Barrington Center5.9 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 StreamwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1446379The 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 419213. 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.