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East Troy, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in East Troy Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53120. The Survey maps it on the East Troy quadrangle. 4,687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

East Troy within Walworth County

On record in East Troy

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

East Troy grew from 4,281 to 4,687 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
20104,281
20204,687+406 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

12 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of East Troy between 2010 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources79
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources22
8 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201816
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018021
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018020
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources38

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Troy: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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
Army Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Meyers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
O Malley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Swoboda PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Troy in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 10 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
July 2003LightningEast Troy8 hurtno account filed
July 2003LightningEast Troy2 hurtno account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$150,000Powerful, hurricane-force thunderstorms winds knocked down many trees, power-lines, and an old silo. Additionally, part of a roof of a barn was ripped off, a concrete wall of a machine shed was blown in, and 2 semi tractor-trailers were blown over on Interstate-43. Peak wind gusts were estimated at 78 knots (90 mph), but this number could be 9 knots (10 mph) too low or too high.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$25,000no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$20,000no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$10,000Numerous trees, branches, and powerlines down in East Troy.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$7,000The Walworth County 911 Call Center received reports of trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph (52 knots) in East Troy.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$5,000no account filed
August 2002Flash FloodEast Troy$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$5,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$4,000Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$3,000Trees down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$2,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$2,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$1,000An uprooted tree.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$1,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEast Troy$600no account filed
May 2025HailEast Troy-The large hail shredded the leaves off the trees.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-A trained spotter reported large tree branches knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated to be as high as 60 mph (52 knots).
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines were blown down in multiple locations in East Troy due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-Tree damage from near Beulah Station (east of city of East Troy) to Honey Creek was noted by a trained spotter. Based on the size of the limbs and trees blown down they estimated winds in excess of 52 knots (60 mph).
May 2025HailEast Troy-no account filed
May 2025HailEast Troy-no account filed
May 2025HailEast Troy-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-no account filed
June 2017HailEast Troy-no account filed
September 2010HailEast Troy-no account filed
March 2005HailEast Troy-no account filed
July 2005HailEast Troy-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-no account filed
August 2005HailEast Troy-no account filed
May 2001HailEast Troy-no account filed
May 2000HailEast Troy-no account filed
May 2000Funnel CloudEast Troy-no account filed
May 2000HailEast Troy-no account filed
August 1997HailEast Troy-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindEast Troy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Skyview Terrace0.3 miles24
Troy2.2 miles24
Army Lake (historical)2.2 miles24
Hilburn2.7 miles24
Troy Center3.6 miles24
Potter Lake3.9 miles24
Mayhews (historical)4.8 miles24
Lake Beulah5.1 miles24

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 East TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1278054The 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 1564382. 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.