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Belgium, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Belgium town. It lies in ZIP code area 53004. The Survey maps it on the Port Washington East quadrangle. 2,421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Belgium within Ozaukee County

Population over time

2 figures

Belgium grew from 2,245 to 2,421 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,245
20202,421+176 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Belgium between 1995 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources147
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113
26 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71
24 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1653
1 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources110
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources57
19 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources50

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belgium in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Flash FloodBelgium$1,000,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBelgium$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBelgium$1,000no account filed
June 2012HailBelgium-no account filed
July 2008HailBelgium-no account filed
July 2007HailBelgium-no account filed
July 2006HailBelgium-no account filed
October 2006HailBelgium-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee 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
Lake Church1.6 miles13
Decker2.1 miles13
Holy Cross3.1 miles12
Sauk Trail Beach3.6 miles8
Druecker4.3 miles13
Fredonia5.7 miles12
Knellsville6.0 miles13
Waubeka7.6 miles12

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 BelgiumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2025327The 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 1561517. 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.

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.