THE HANOVER PARK LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Valparaiso-Wheaton Morainal Complex setting.
Hanover Park village has 6.42 square miles of land in Cook County, DuPage County. Its Census reference point is in Valparaiso-Wheaton Morainal Complex, within Central Corn Belt Plains.
Glaciated plains historically supported tallgrass prairie mixed with oak and hickory woodland. Dark prairie soils and broad farming landscapes distinguish much of the Central Corn Belt.
Regional context: Central Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Hanover Park intersects 2 county geographies: Cook County, DuPage County. A Hanover Park mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Hanover Park by land and water
The Census records 0.1 square miles of water within Hanover Park, or 1.6% of its total area. It is 2.6 percentage points lower than the 4.1% recorded for Illinois. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hanover Park village has 40.8% of the land area of nearby Bartlett village (15.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

