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Elm Grove, Wisconsin

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Elm Grove Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53122. The Survey maps it on the Wauwatosa quadrangle. 6,513 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Elm Grove within Waukesha County

On record in Elm Grove

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

Elm Grove grew from 5,934 to 6,513 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
20105,934
20206,513+579 (+10%)

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

47 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Elm Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803041
26 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002767
31 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2990
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806123
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806080
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806070
1 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803975

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Elm Grove: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Grove in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
August 2002LightningElm Grove$250,000no account filed
June 1998LightningElm Grove$10,000no account filed
June 1996LightningElm Grove$10,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodElm Grove$5,000Heavy rain from strong to severe thunderstorms that moved across the region produced flash flooding from 3 to 4-inch rainfall that fell in only a couple of hours. All of the I-94 ramps in Brookfield were closed for a time due to high water. Water covered Sunset Drive at a railroad intersection about 1 mile southwest of Waukesha. Trained spotters reported 2 feet of water flowing through the intersection of Calhoun Rd and Beloit Rd., as well as Overland Trail near Brookfield Rd. in New Berlin.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindElm Grove$1,000Tree damage on the corner of Elmhurst Parkway.
May 2014Flash FloodElm Grove-Two feet of water at the intersection of Ponoma Road and Clearwater Drive along with urban street flooding throughout the area.
June 2014HailElm Grove-Hail lasted 5 minutes.
July 2006HailElm Grove-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindElm Grove-no account filed
April 1999FloodElm Grove-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
Brookfield1.9 miles20
Calhoun3.3 miles21
Butler4.4 miles20
Goerkes Corner4.6 miles21
New Berlin4.9 miles18
Marcy5.3 miles21
Duplainville6.7 miles21
Fussville7.5 miles20

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 Elm GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2686389The 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 1564560. 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.