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Mequon, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Thiensville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53092. It stands on Pigeon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thiensville quadrangle. 25,142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Mequon within Ozaukee County

On record in Mequon

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mequon grew from 23,132 to 25,142 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
201023,132
202025,142+2,010 (+9%)

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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mequon between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
21 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772607
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002743
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802679
23 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002437
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002392
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1473559

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee 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 Mequon: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
H.F. Prahl Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mequon in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2001LightningMequon3 hurt, $20,000no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodMequon$3,600,000no account filed
June 2010LightningMequon$1,000,000A lightning strike in the city of Mequon resulted in a fire at a strip mall in the 1100 block of North Port Washington Road that destroyed 9 businesses. Time is estimated. Other severe weather was reported in southern Wisconsin during the pre-dawn hours of June 23, 2010.
July 2005LightningMequon$500,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodMequon$462,160Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding from the Mequon area northeast to the Belgium to Port Washington area. Water depths on road surfaces reached 3 feet or more and there were gravel washouts. One hundred twenty-seven homes had minor damage, and 191 homes had major damage (total of $3.765 million for all home property losses). Business losses were about $810 thousand. Crops losses were estimated at $500 thousand. Public sector damage was about $1.1 million. There were several roads and bridges that sustained damage.
May 2000Flash FloodMequon$75,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMequon$10,000Trees and power lines down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMequon$3,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMequon$2,000Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled large trees. Estimated wind gusts were on the order of 52 knots (60 mph).
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMequon$1,000Many tree branches down.
August 2021Heavy RainMequon-Urban street flooding in far southern Ozaukee County, especially on portions of Mequon Rd. and Port Washington Rd.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindMequon-Law enforcement officers reported numerous trees and power lines downed in a 5-mile wide swath from west of Mequon to Port Washington from damaging severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
June 2016HailMequon-no account filed
April 2007Heavy RainMequon-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMequon-no account filed
May 2004HailMequon-no account filed
May 2004HailMequon-no account filed
August 2003HailMequon-no account filed
March 2000HailMequon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee 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
Thiensville0.3 miles19
Freistadt3.1 miles20
Hamilton3.4 miles13
Cedarburg4.2 miles13
Lakefield5.1 miles13
Grafton6.0 miles13
Ulao6.8 miles13
Horns Corners7.5 miles15

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 MequonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019382The 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 1569354. 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.