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Glendale, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Glendale City. It lies in ZIP code area 53209. The Survey maps it on the Thiensville quadrangle. 13,357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Glendale within Milwaukee County

On record in Glendale

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glendale grew from 12,872 to 13,357 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
201012,872
202013,357+485 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

30 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 2014 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778249
9 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1768522
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
7 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767727
13 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1769924
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804347
29 July 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1764515
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804468

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glendale: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cerac Inc.REE, ThoriumPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 1 strong wind, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2006HailGlendale$1,990,000no account filed
August 2018Heavy RainGlendale$60,000Heavy rainfall in a construction zone resulted in a flooded I-43 at Green Tree Rd. on two separate occasions during the morning hours. Both lanes of I-43 were closed in both instances. Before the first closing, 6 vehicles were stranded in deep water and four occupants of the vehicles had to be rescued by the fire department.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGlendale$10,000Several large trees were uprooted by powerful, straight-line thunderstorm winds. Power-lines were damaged.
September 1997Strong WindGlendale$600no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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
Fox Point2.4 miles19
Whitefish Bay2.4 miles18
Brown Deer2.5 miles19
River Hills2.8 miles19
Bayside3.6 miles19
Shorewood4.1 miles18
West Granville5.8 miles20
Granville6.4 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 GlendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569527The 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 1565570. 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.