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Brookfield, Wisconsin

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brookfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 53005. The Survey maps it on the Wauwatosa quadrangle. 41,464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Brookfield within Waukesha County

On record in Brookfield

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Brookfield grew from 37,920 to 41,464 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
201037,920
202041,464+3,544 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

38 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Brookfield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803041
26 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002767
10 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources367
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802082
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803729
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801676
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801682

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brookfield: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
James PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookfield in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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
August 1998Flash FloodBrookfield2 killed, 1 hurt, $17,300,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$200,000no account filed
July 1997LightningBrookfield$105,000no account filed
September 2006Flash FloodBrookfield$100,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodBrookfield$50,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$25,000The Waukesha County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines were blown down in Brookfield from damaging thunderstorm wind gusts that were estimated up to 65 mph (56 knots). One tree fell onto a church roof causing damage to the roof.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$15,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$10,000Shingle and fascia damage to several homes in the area. Tree branches down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$10,000Trees and power lines down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$10,000Power lines down.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$10,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$6,000Scattered trees and power lines down from Brookfield to New Berlin.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$5,000Multiple reports of tree damage from Brookfield to New Berlin.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$5,000Multiple trees and some wires down across Brookfield and New Berlin.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$3,000Tree damage in Brookfield.
May 2001LightningBrookfield$3,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$2,000Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled large trees. Estimated wind gusts were on the order of 52 knots (60 mph). One tree landed on the roof of a home, but there was only minor gutter damage.
July 2006Flash FloodBrookfield$2,000Off ramps flooded at Moreland Road and I-94. Flash flood waters eroded dirt and grass on road shoulders. About 1.50 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes ending at 1710CST on the west side of Brookfield.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$1,000Law enforcement officials reported many trees blown over by wet microburst winds estimated at 64mph (56 knots) in a swath from 3 miles north-northeast of Brookfield to Butler.
May 2006LightningBrookfield$1,000Lightning striking the ground next to a home shattered its windows.
September 1997Strong WindBrookfield$300no account filed
May 2024HailBrookfield-Three quarter inch hail falling with estimated winds of 40 mph.
August 2012HailBrookfield-A trained spotter reported nickel-sized hail (0.88 inch in diameter) near the intersection of Interstate 94 and Moorland Road in Brookfield.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-Trees down.
July 2006HailBrookfield-Hail covered the ground white.
June 2024HailBrookfield-no account filed
September 2021HailBrookfield-no account filed
June 2014HailBrookfield-no account filed
June 2014HailBrookfield-no account filed
May 2014HailBrookfield-no account filed
July 2006HailBrookfield-no account filed
July 2006HailBrookfield-no account filed
July 2006HailBrookfield-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-no account filed
November 2005HailBrookfield-no account filed
May 1999FloodBrookfield-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-no account filed
July 1994HailBrookfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Elm Grove1.9 miles20
Calhoun3.4 miles21
Marcy3.5 miles21
Goerkes Corner3.6 miles21
Butler3.7 miles20
Duplainville4.9 miles21
New Berlin5.8 miles18
Fussville6.5 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 BrookfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q929024The 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 1562234. 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.