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Chenequa, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Chenequa Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53058. It lies near Treasure Island. The Survey maps it on the Oconomowoc East quadrangle. 526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Chenequa within Waukesha County

Population over time

2 figures

Chenequa fell from 590 to 526 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
2010590
2020526-64 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Chenequa between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4

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
21 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802995
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources381
8 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900183
30 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801911
28 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
2 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources124
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800908

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 Chenequa: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
North Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vogt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chenequa in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 1996LightningChenequa1 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindChenequa1 hurt, $3,000no account filed
June 2022FloodChenequa$1,000Flooding on Highway 83 washed out gravel on the shoulder of the road.

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
Nashotah1.1 miles23
Okauchee2.3 miles23
Stonebank2.3 miles22
Okauchee Lake2.7 miles23
Hartland2.7 miles22
North Lake3.3 miles22
Delafield3.6 miles23
Oconomowoc Lake3.6 miles23

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 ChenequaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301305The 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 1562974. 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.