Tinley Park, Illinois
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60477. The Survey maps it on the Tinley Park quadrangle. 55,971 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
On record in Tinley Park
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 1 record
Karl Vogt Buildinglisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresTinley Park fell from 56,703 to 55,971 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 | 56,703 | |
| 2020 | 55,971 | -732 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 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.
- 1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Tinley Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Tinley Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Tinley Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Tinley Park quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tinley Park in 2005, 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tinley Park in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Lightning | Tinley Park | 1 hurt, $50,000 | A house was struck by lightning which started a fire in the attic. The lightning struck the chimney, knocking part of it down. A woman washing her face felt a shock in her arm but suffered no serious injuries. |
| July 2001 | Lightning | Tinley Park | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| January 2026 | Flash Flood | Tinley Park | - | Flooding was reported on numerous streets and roadways, including in Lemont, Homer Glen, Oak Lawn, Chicago Ridge and Hickory Hills. In the City of Chicago, street flooding was reported in Washington Park and Auburn Gresham. Basement flooding was reported in Chicago Lawn, Ashburn, West Englewood and Auburn Gresham. Route 83 was flooded between Archer Avenue and Route 45. Rainfall reports included 2.89 inches near Crestwood and 2.70 inches in Oak Lawn. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | - | A photo shared on social media showed damage to roof trim and gutters of a house near 167th Street and Oak Park Avenue. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | - | A photo showed leaning utility poles at 175th Street and Harlem Avenue. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | - | Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down causing damage to roofs and cars. Some trees were uprooted, some were snapped. |
| September 2024 | Flood | Tinley Park | - | Two lanes of eastbound Interstate 80 were blocked by flood waters near Harlem Avenue. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | - | A photo was shared on social media of a large tree limb that was snapped off a tree near 177th Street and 65th Court. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | - | Power lines blown down. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tinley Park | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| August 2008 | Flood | Tinley Park | - | Street flooding was reported near Harlem and 171st Street. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Tinley Park | - | Standing water at Harlem Avenue and 171st Street was reported to be three and a half feet deep. |
| April 2007 | Flood | Tinley Park | - | Several creeks have overflowed their banks. Flooding in low lying areas. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Tinley Park | - | Four inches of water covering a road. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | Reported at 179th St and 84th Ave. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Tinley Park | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fernway | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Fernway Park | 2.6 miles | 24 | |
| Oak Forest | 3.0 miles | 25 | |
| Orland Hills | 3.2 miles | 24 | |
| Country Club Hills | 3.4 miles | 25 | |
| Goeselville | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Flossmoor Highlands | 4.2 miles | 25 | |
| Hazel Crest | 4.8 miles | 25 |
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 Tinley Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1761214 | 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 419738. 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.
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.










