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.
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
Ardmore Avenue Train Stationlisted 1980
Villa Avenue Train Stationlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresVilla 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21,904 | |
| 2020 | 22,263 | +359 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1928 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,155 words on this townshipHistory 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 2005Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Ellyn City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Village of Lombard Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Portable Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Underground No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Northlake City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Park | $10,000 | The 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Park | $5,000 | Eight to ten inch diameter trees were blown down. One house was damaged by a tree. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Park | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Villa 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa 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 2024 | Tornado (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 2023 | Tornado (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 2021 | Hail | Villa Park | - | A photo was shared on social media of quarter size hail. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Park | - | Hundreds of trees were damaged in Villa Park. About 20 mature trees were removed due to severe damage. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Villa Park | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Villa Park | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Villa Park | - | no account filed |
| November 2013 | Hail | Villa Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Villa Park | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Villa Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Villa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Addison | 1.1 miles | 23 | |
| Lombard | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| York Center | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| South Elmhurst | 2.6 miles | 23 | |
| Elmhurst | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Glen Oak | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Utopia | 2.8 miles | 23 | |
| Yorkfield | 2.8 miles | 23 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1863204 | 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 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.











