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Butler, Wisconsin

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Butler Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53007. The Survey maps it on the Wauwatosa quadrangle. 1,787 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Butler within Waukesha County

On record in Butler

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

Butler fell from 1,841 to 1,787 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
20101,841
20201,787-54 (-3%)

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

28 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Butler between 2014 and 2020, burning about 18 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
26 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002767
9 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1768522
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772992
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Butler: 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lannon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Reimer and Sons Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Lannon QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Lannon QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
United Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butler in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
August 1995Thunderstorm WindButler-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
Fussville3.2 miles20
Marcy3.4 miles21
Brookfield3.7 miles20
Elm Grove4.4 miles20
Menomonee Falls5.6 miles20
Lannon5.8 miles20
Willow Springs6.5 miles20
Goerkes Corner7.0 miles21

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 ButlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461818The 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 1562466. 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.