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Hales Corners, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hales Corners Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53130. The Survey maps it on the Hales Corners quadrangle. 7,720 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Hales Corners within Milwaukee County

On record in Hales Corners

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

Hales Corners grew from 7,692 to 7,720 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
20107,692
20207,720+28 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Hales Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
31 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2990
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203500
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806080
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2265
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources140
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202979
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182913
13 July 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202737

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 Hales Corners: 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Jack S Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Franklin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lippman Plant # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hales Corners in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2020Flash FloodHales Corners$50,000Three to seven inches of rain from persistent thunderstorms resulted in the flash flooding of creeks, streets, parks, and residential yards in southern Milwaukee County. This included the communities of West Allis, Greenfield, Oak Creek, Franklin, and others in southern Milwaukee County. Many streets were impassable and closed. Many vehicles were stranded in 2 to 4 feet of floodwaters. Portions of I-43 were closed due to flooding. Many yards and basements were flooded especially when the floodwaters rose from the streets into the yards. Oak Creek at South Milwaukee rapidly rose and nearly reached moderate flood stage.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHales Corners$20,000Trees and power lines down on Godsell Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHales Corners$4,000Tree damage.
April 2026HailHales Corners-Mping report of 1 inch diameter hail near Hales Corners.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHales Corners-Trees and power lines down on Potter Rd.
September 2012HailHales Corners-no account filed
June 2004HailHales Corners-no 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
Saint Martins2.5 miles18
Greenfield2.5 miles18
Greendale2.8 miles16
Franklin3.4 miles18
West Allis5.9 miles20
West Milwaukee6.6 miles18
Wauwatosa8.0 miles20
Oakwood8.6 miles17

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 Hales CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671393The 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 1565971. 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.