Fox Point, Wisconsin
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Fox Point Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53217. The Survey maps it on the Thiensville quadrangle. 6,934 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.
On record in Fox Point
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 4 records
Albert and Edith Adelman Houselisted 2005
Starke Meyer Houselisted 1985
MILWAUKEE (steam screw) Shipwrecklisted 2015
Mary L. Nohl Art Environmentlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresFox Point grew from 6,701 to 6,934 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 | 6,701 | |
| 2020 | 6,934 | +233 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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 Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Thiensville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fox Point between 2014 and 2020, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767727 |
| 13 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1769924 |
| 8 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804347 |
| 29 July 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1764515 |
| 13 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804468 |
| 10 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804397 |
| 8 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1746257 |
| 13 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1803693 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fox Point: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerac Inc. | REE, Thorium | Past Producer | ||
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox Point in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fox Point | $5,000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayside | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| River Hills | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Glendale | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Whitefish Bay | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Brown Deer | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| Shorewood | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Granville | 7.7 miles | 20 | |
| West Granville | 7.7 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 Fox Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2845194 | 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 1565227. 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.







