BlockWilmette, Illinois
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1995. It stands in New Trier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60091. The Survey maps it on the Evanston quadrangle. 28,170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.
On record in Wilmette
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 12 of 14 shown
Baha'i Templelisted 1978
Bailey-Michelet Houselisted 1982
Frank J. Baker Houselisted 1974
Alfred Bersbach Houselisted 2003
Chicago and Northwestern Depotlisted 1975
Robert and Suzanne Drucker Houselisted 2013
Gross Point Village Halllisted 1991
Linden Avenue Terminallisted 1984
Oak Circle Historic Districtlisted 2001
Ouilmette North Historic Districtlisted 2005- Craig and Estella Hazelwood Houselisted 2024
- Eli and Jeanne Lipman Houselisted 2025
Population over time
2 figuresWilmette grew from 27,087 to 28,170 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 | 27,087 | |
| 2020 | 28,170 | +1,083 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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.
- 1899 USGS Evanston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1928 USGS Evanston quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Evanston quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Evanston quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Evanston quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Evanston quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wilmette: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evanston City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Morton Grove City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wilmette City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Winnetka City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmette in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | $100,000 | Numerous large trees were blown down with some trees uprooted. Some of the fallen trees crushed parked cars. Roof damage was reported to a hospital in Evanston. A wind gust to 57 mph was measured. |
| June 2010 | Lightning | Wilmette | $100,000 | Lightning struck a house which started a fire. The house was engulfed in flames. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | $30,000 | Nineteen large trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down. One tree went down at 13th and Lake Streets, crushing a fence and breaking a window. A house and two cars were damaged when a tree fell on Amherst Lane. |
| July 2015 | Lightning | Wilmette | $15,000 | A garage was struck by lightning on Sheridan Road resulting in damage to the bricks and chimney. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | $2,000 | Winds estimated to 40 mph caused a large branch to fall onto a car trapping a motorist near Gross Point Road and Park Place. No injuries were reported. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | A photo shared on social media showed a tree limb hanging from power lines in the 3100 block of Hartzell Street. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | Photos shared on social media showed tree limbs blown down near Harrison Street and Prospect Street. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | Several large trees were blown down around Harrison Street near Ackerman Park, south of Central Street. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | Wind gusts were measured to 58 mph. Small tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | A 74-inch diameter tree known as the Bicentennial Ash was blown down in Gillson Park. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | Over 1,000 trees were either uprooted, blown over, or suffered some kind of damage. At least 76 trees, including some 25 to 30 inches in diameter, were blown down at a golf course. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Wilmette | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmette | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Flood | Wilmette | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Point | 0.5 miles | 21 | |
| Kenilworth | 1.0 miles | 21 | |
| North Evanston | 1.5 miles | 21 | |
| Winnetka | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Skokie | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Evanston | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Lake View | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Hubbard Woods | 3.2 miles | 21 |
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 Wilmette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q578301 | 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 421276. 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.