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.
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
- Visitation Convent Complexlisted 2011
Population over time
2 figuresElm 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,934 | |
| 2020 | 6,513 | +579 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Waukesha quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Waukesha quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Waukesha quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wauwatosa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Waukesha quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
47 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1803041 |
| 26 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2002767 |
| 31 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2990 |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2005040 |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806123 |
| 11 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806080 |
| 11 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806070 |
| 1 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1803975 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Lightning | Elm Grove | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Elm Grove | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Elm Grove | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Elm Grove | $5,000 | Heavy 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | $1,000 | Tree damage on the corner of Elmhurst Parkway. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Elm Grove | - | Two feet of water at the intersection of Ponoma Road and Clearwater Drive along with urban street flooding throughout the area. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Elm Grove | - | Hail lasted 5 minutes. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Flood | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfield | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Calhoun | 3.3 miles | 21 | |
| Butler | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Goerkes Corner | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| New Berlin | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Marcy | 5.3 miles | 21 | |
| Duplainville | 6.7 miles | 21 | |
| Fussville | 7.5 miles | 20 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2686389 | The 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.








