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New Berlin, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in New Berlin City. It lies in ZIP code area 53151. The Survey maps it on the Hales Corners quadrangle. 40,451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

New Berlin within Waukesha County

On record in New Berlin

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

New Berlin grew from 39,584 to 40,451 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
201039,584
202040,451+867 (+2%)

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.

In the county-history sources

75,278 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on New Berlin City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on New Berlin City - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

39 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of New Berlin between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
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
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803041
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
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
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
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2244
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources140

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of New Berlin: 5 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Buege Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jack S Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kohler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Park View Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley BlacktopSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley Pit Hillview S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Berlin in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 lightning, 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
August 1996LightningNew Berlin$150,000no account filed
August 2009LightningNew Berlin$50,000Lightning struck a home and started a fire that resulted in a fair amount of damage.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$20,000The public reported trees downed by powerful thunderstorm winds 2 miles southeast of the city of New Berlin. A tree measuring 15 inches in diameter fell on a house.
May 2020FloodNew Berlin$15,000In New Berlin there were numerous flooded streets, basements, and elevator shafts. |A portion of 130th St. was closed due to road buckling.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$15,000Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled numerous large trees, and broken tree branches brought down some power lines.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$10,000Numerous trees and branches down. One power pole damaged by tree landing on it.
March 2008LightningNew Berlin$10,000A lightning strike to a radio antenna on a home on National Avenue damaged a breadmaker, interior wiring, and electrical outlets. However , there was no fire.
April 2013LightningNew Berlin$5,000A house fire occurred in the town of New Berlin when the residence was struck by lightning. Only minor damage was reported.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$2,000Sporadic coverage of trees and power lines down in New Berlin.
July 1999LightningNew Berlin$2,000no account filed
September 2016Heavy RainNew Berlin-Heavy rains and street flooding resulted in closing the intersection of 128th street and Cleveland Ave in New Berlin.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin-Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees.
April 2025HailNew Berlin-no account filed
September 2025HailNew Berlin-no account filed
May 2024HailNew Berlin-no account filed
August 2014HailNew Berlin-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin-no account filed
May 2001HailNew Berlin-no account filed
October 1996HailNew Berlin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Calhoun2.7 miles21
Prospect3.5 miles18
Golden Country Estates3.8 miles18
Tess Corners3.8 miles18
Durhamswood4.8 miles18
Elm Grove4.9 miles20
Lake Brittany Estates4.9 miles18
Squire Glen Estates5.0 miles18

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 New BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1005623The 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 1570202. 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.