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Bayside, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Bayside Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53217. The Survey maps it on the Thiensville quadrangle. 4,482 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Bayside within Milwaukee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bayside between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804347
29 July 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1764515
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804468
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804397
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803693
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002743
1 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802681
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802679

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bayside: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayside in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBayside$10,000Trees and power lines down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBayside$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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
River Hills1.3 miles19
Fox Point1.6 miles19
Brown Deer3.6 miles19
Glendale3.6 miles19
Whitefish Bay4.6 miles18
Shorewood6.3 miles18
Granville7.6 miles20
West Granville8.1 miles20

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 BaysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1987502The 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 1561327. 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.