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Villa Park, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60148. The Survey maps it on the Elmhurst quadrangle. 22,263 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Villa Park within DuPage County

On record in Villa 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Villa Park grew from 21,904 to 22,263 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
201021,904
202022,263+359 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

2,155 words on this township

History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on York Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on York Township - 2,155 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Villa Park in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Villa Park: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Glen Ellyn City PitStonePast Producer
Village of Lombard PitStonePast Producer
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villa Park in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindVilla Park$10,000The roof of a muffler shop was damaged. Debris and signs were blown down near North Avenue and along Summit Avenue. Power lines were also blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindVilla Park$5,000Eight to ten inch diameter trees were blown down. One house was damaged by a tree.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindVilla Park-Trees were blown down.
July 2024FloodVilla Park-Street flooding up to 6 inches in depth was reported in Villa Park. Storm total rainfall of 2.54 inches was reported near Villa Park.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindVilla Park-A corridor of tree damage occurred in Villa Park which began near School Avenue and continued through Ardmore Avenue. Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Trees were snapped near Wisconsin Avenue and Park Boulevard.
July 2024Tornado (EF0)Villa Park-A brief tornado with estimated peak winds of 75 mph touched down near Kenilworth Avenue and Ardmore Avenue where a highly localized corridor of tree damage occurred including multiple tree limbs and power lines blown down. The tornado moved northeast crossing St. Charles Road then Salt Creek and ended just west of Kingery Highway.
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Villa Park-The tornado dropped in an industrial park near N Main St just north of N North Ave on the far north side of Lombard. There, it caused roof damage to a couple of buildings. It continued on into the town of Addison where it caused roof damage to office buildings. The tornado then caused primarily tree damage as it tracked across a residential area of Addison south of Fullerton Ave before lifting as it crossed Fullerton Ave at Hale St. South and east of the tornado's track was a large swath of additional damage caused by straight line winds.
August 2021HailVilla Park-A photo was shared on social media of quarter size hail.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVilla Park-Hundreds of trees were damaged in Villa Park. About 20 mature trees were removed due to severe damage.
April 2023HailVilla Park-no account filed
May 2018HailVilla Park-no account filed
April 2014HailVilla Park-no account filed
November 2013HailVilla Park-no account filed
July 2012HailVilla Park-no account filed
October 2005HailVilla Park-no account filed
August 2001HailVilla Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
South Addison1.1 miles23
Lombard1.2 miles19
York Center2.3 miles23
South Elmhurst2.6 miles23
Elmhurst2.7 miles23
Glen Oak2.7 miles19
Utopia2.8 miles23
Yorkfield2.8 miles23

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 Villa ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1863204The 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 422126. 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.