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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.

Tinley Park within Cook County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Tinley 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.

YearPeople Change
201056,703
202055,971-732 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 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 ceremony1
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
5 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 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

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2006LightningTinley Park1 hurt, $50,000A 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 2001LightningTinley Park$20,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTinley Park$1,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2026Flash FloodTinley 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 2025Thunderstorm WindTinley 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 2025Thunderstorm WindTinley Park-A photo showed leaning utility poles at 175th Street and Harlem Avenue.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTinley Park-Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down causing damage to roofs and cars. Some trees were uprooted, some were snapped.
September 2024FloodTinley Park-Two lanes of eastbound Interstate 80 were blocked by flood waters near Harlem Avenue.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTinley 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 2016Thunderstorm WindTinley Park-Power lines blown down.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindTinley Park-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
August 2008FloodTinley Park-Street flooding was reported near Harlem and 171st Street.
August 2008Flash FloodTinley Park-Standing water at Harlem Avenue and 171st Street was reported to be three and a half feet deep.
April 2007FloodTinley Park-Several creeks have overflowed their banks. Flooding in low lying areas.
August 2007FloodTinley Park-Four inches of water covering a road.
April 2004HailTinley Park-Reported at 179th St and 84th Ave.
May 2024HailTinley Park-no account filed
May 2024HailTinley Park-no account filed
May 2024HailTinley Park-no account filed
June 2011HailTinley Park-no account filed
March 2009HailTinley Park-no account filed
September 2000HailTinley Park-no account filed
April 1996HailTinley Park-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
Fernway2.1 miles24
Fernway Park2.6 miles24
Oak Forest3.0 miles25
Orland Hills3.2 miles24
Country Club Hills3.4 miles25
Goeselville3.5 miles24
Flossmoor Highlands4.2 miles25
Hazel Crest4.8 miles25

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1761214The 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.