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Brown Deer, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Brown Deer Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53209. The Survey maps it on the Thiensville quadrangle. 12,507 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Brown Deer within Milwaukee County

On record in Brown Deer

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Brown Deer grew from 11,999 to 12,507 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
201011,999
202012,507+508 (+4%)

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

29 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Brown Deer between 2014 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778249
9 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1768522
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
7 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767727
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772992
21 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772607
13 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1769924
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804347

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 Brown Deer: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, 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
Cerac Inc.REE, ThoriumPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brown Deer in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 3 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 2008Flash FloodBrown Deer$77,970,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding across much of Milwaukee County. Water depths on some roads reached 3 to 4 feet and many cars stalled. Water entered many homes and businesses. Two other flash flood event occurred in Milwaukee County on June 7th. Collectively, these 3 flash floods resulted in home and business damage along with some crop losses. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown for the 3 flash flood events is provided in the June 8th StormData entry for Milwaukee County.||The collective breakdown for residential home losses were: 3957 minimally affected, 2583 with minor damage, and 1135 with major damage (total of $32/301 million for home losses). The total business losses were $5.855 million. Crop losses were $15.5 thousand. Public sector damage was about $40.814 million. Several roads and bridges that sustained damage. On June 7th, 4.93 inches of rain fell at Milwaukee Mitchell Field, breaking the old record rainfall for the date which was 2.44 inches (June 7, 1916). On June 8th, 2.25 inches of rain broke the old record rainfall for the date which was 1.24 inches (June 8, 1974). Combined, these two days of rainfall broke the 48-hour all-time rainfall record at Milwaukee. The previous record was 6.84 inches, which was recorded on August 5-6, 1986. On June 7-8, 2008, Milwaukee observed 7.18 inches of rain.
April 2006HailBrown Deer$1,990,000no account filed
April 2006HailBrown Deer$1,990,000no account filed
April 2007LightningBrown Deer$25,000Dozens of power outages resulted from lightning stikes throughout Milwaukee County. About 1400 customers were left without electrical power.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$25,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 52 knots (60 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged some power-lines.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$12,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodBrown Deer$10,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding across the northern part of Milwaukee County. Water depths on some roads reached 3 to 4 feet and many cars stalled. Water entered many homes and businesses. Another flash flood event occurred across mostly southern Milwaukee County on June 7th, and another flash flood event occurred on June 8th. Collectively, these 3 flash floods resulted in home and business damage along with some crop losses. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown for the 3 flash flood events is provided in the June 8th StormData entry for Milwaukee County.
July 2022Flash FloodBrown Deer$5,000Flash flooding of streets including a flooded Green Bay Road after a quick 2-2.5 inches of rainfall.
September 2010LightningBrown Deer$3,000Damage to an antenna and minor electrical damage due to a lightning strike to a residence was reported by the county emergency manager.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$3,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$3,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$2,000Several trees down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$2,000Several tree branches down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$800no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$500A large tree limb down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer$500A large tree branch down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer-A trained spotter measured a thunderstorm wind gust at 61 mph (53 knots) 4 miles west of Brown Deer. The wind gusts snapped small trees, with trunks about 6 inches in diameter.
March 2007HailBrown Deer-The ground was covered white by the hail.
June 2022HailBrown Deer-no account filed
March 2007HailBrown Deer-no account filed
April 2007Heavy RainBrown Deer-no account filed
October 2006HailBrown Deer-no account filed
May 2004Heavy RainBrown Deer-no account filed
May 2004Heavy RainBrown Deer-no account filed
May 2004HailBrown Deer-no account filed
May 2004HailBrown Deer-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBrown Deer-no 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 Hills2.3 miles19
Glendale2.5 miles19
Fox Point3.4 miles19
Bayside3.6 miles19
Granville4.3 miles20
West Granville4.5 miles20
Whitefish Bay4.9 miles18
Shorewood6.5 miles18

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 Brown DeerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346859The 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 1562261. 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.