Kenosha, Wisconsin

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• Kenosha County

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 12 of 23 shown

• Boys and Girls Librarylisted 1980
• Civic Center Historic Districtlisted 1989
• Anthony and Caroline Isermann Houselisted 2004
• Frank and Jane Isermann Houselisted 2004
• Kemper Halllisted 1976
• Kenosha County Courthouse and Jaillisted 1982
• Kenosha Elks Clublisted 2017
• Kenosha Light Stationlisted 1990
• Kenosha North Pierhead Lightlisted 2008
• Library Parklisted 2000
• Library Park Historic Districtlisted 1988
• Manor Houselisted 1980

Every listing in Kenosha County

Kenosha grew from 99,218 to 99,986 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.

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.

• 1892 USGS Racine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Racine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Kenosha quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Racine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Racine quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Kenosha city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Kenosha City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Kenosha between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Prairie Lake Estates
• Shorecrest Pointe
• Truesdell
• Westwood Estates
• Carol Beach
• Somers

Every fire recorded in Kenosha County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kenosha: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, 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.

Every working recorded in Kenosha County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenosha in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 lightning, 7 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Kenosha County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1567416. 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.