BlockWest Dundee, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Dundee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60118. It stands on No Name Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elgin quadrangle. 7,686 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.
On record in West Dundee
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 within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Dundee Township Historic Districtlisted 1975 · 0.3 miles away
Library Halllisted 1973 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresWest Dundee grew from 7,331 to 7,686 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 | 7,331 | |
| 2020 | 7,686 | +355 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 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.
- 1925 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,451 words on this townshipHistory of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Dundee Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The Carpentersville Literary and Library Association - This association was organized in March, 1871. the late Hon. Julius Angelo Carpenter, of Carpentersville, being the prime mover, he, at that time, being a member of the state legislature. The charter members were George Marshall, William W. Norton, W. G. Sawyer, H. G. Sawyer, \\'illiam H. Webb, Delos Dunton, Oscar Diezman, George Robinson, George Plumleigh. John Donovan. Luther D. Wright and Swain Dahlbom. The reason for the non-appearance of ]Mr. Carpenter's name among the charter members is that he was at Springfield when the papers were made out. The three school districts, comprising the villages of East Dundee, West Dundee and Carpentersville. united and became one district about the year 1870 and a union school building was erected on the blufif in West Dundee about two years later. The district, as it was thought, having no further use for the old building at Carpentersville, which building, by the way, was owned and occupied jointly by the school district and a temperance organization known as "Hand in Hand Division Sons of Temperance No. 292," the interest of the school district was sold at auction to George Willard. of Dundee, and by him transferred to the L. & L. Association, a subscription paper for the purpose having been successfully circulated, the association thereby becoming the owner of the lower room of said building. It very soon became apparent that the building was too small to accommodate the needs of the growing village. Expansion having been decided upon, the building was sawed asunder in the middle, one end moved several feet away and the gap enclosed as a part of the building, thus doubling its size.
Passage source: History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of West Dundee: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Beverly Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Carpentersville Pit #25 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee Pit Meyer Material | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee Pit Road Mat'Ls Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dundee S & G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Elgin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hoffman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mc Graw Pit Meyer Material | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Schuetz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Dundee in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Multiple reports were received of trees down and power outages in the Elgin, West Dundee, and Carpentersville areas. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | A tree trunk approximately 12 inches in diameter was uprooted. Many small to medium size branches were also blown down in the area. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | A photo was shared on social media of a large tree which snapped and fell onto power lines and broke a utility pole. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Multiple large trees and tree limbs were blown down throughout West Dundee. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | West Dundee | - | The intersection of Huntley Road and Route 31 was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2007 | Flood | West Dundee | - | Water eight inches deep, curb to curb on Randall Road north of Interstate 90. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Almost every street was littered with either tree limbs or full trees that were blown down. Large trees were uprooted in a cemetery. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | West Dundee | - | Street flooding was reported. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Power lines and large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Dundee | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Hail | West Dundee | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | West Dundee | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | West Dundee | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | West Dundee | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | West Dundee | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Dundee | 0.6 miles | 20 | |
| Sleepy Hollow | 1.1 miles | 20 | |
| Carpentersville | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Almora | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Illinois Park | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Middlebury | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Elgin | 4.2 miles | 20 | |
| Binnie Lakes | 4.3 miles | 20 |
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 West Dundee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2260662 | 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 420817. 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.
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.