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Delafield, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Delafield City. It lies in ZIP code area 53018. The Survey maps it on the Oconomowoc East quadrangle. 7,185 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Delafield within Waukesha County

On record in Delafield

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Delafield grew from 7,085 to 7,185 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
20107,085
20207,185+100 (+1%)

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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Delafield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1839
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
9 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources157

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Delafield: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 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
Dousman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Evans Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Sawyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit Wolf Constr.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vogt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vulcan Dousman Pit 422Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delafield in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDelafield$25,000A local newspaper reported trees and power lines were downed and a few homes damaged by severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph (61 knots).
May 1998LightningDelafield$20,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDelafield$10,000no account filed
May 1998LightningDelafield$10,000no account filed
May 2000HailDelafield$5,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDelafield$4,000Several trees damaged in Delafield.
May 1998LightningDelafield$4,000no account filed
September 2025Thunderstorm WindDelafield$3,000Several trees and wires down in and near Delafield.
August 2002LightningDelafield$3,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDelafield$2,000About a half a dozen large branches and tops of trees broken off along with two downed and split trees.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDelafield$1,000A large tree down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDelafield$1,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDelafield$1,000no account filed
September 2009Thunderstorm WindDelafield-Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts toppled a few large trees and sheared off a couple pine trees.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDelafield-Trees were reported down with the damaging winds. Penny sized hail was also noted for 5 minutes within the swath of wind damage.
May 2023HailDelafield-no account filed
August 2013HailDelafield-no account filed
September 2006HailDelafield-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudDelafield-no account filed
May 2004HailDelafield-no account filed
July 2004HailDelafield-no account filed
July 2000HailDelafield-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindDelafield-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
Nashotah2.6 miles23
Buena Vista2.8 miles22
Waterville3.4 miles23
Chenequa3.6 miles23
Summit Corners3.7 miles23
Pewaukee West4.0 miles22
Okauchee4.0 miles23
Summit Center4.1 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 DelafieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570178The 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 1563872. 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.