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Pewaukee, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Pewaukee Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53072. The Survey maps it on the Hartland quadrangle. 8,238 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Pewaukee within Waukesha County

On record in Pewaukee

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

Pewaukee grew from 8,166 to 8,238 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
20108,166
20208,238+72 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

38,760 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Pewaukee City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Glasgow has 39 to every 1,000; Liverpool, 36; London, 25 ; New Orleans, 54; New York, 32 ; San Francisco, 24; Milwaukee, 21. Among seventeen of the principal cities of the Union, Milwaukee ranks the ninth in rate of mortality. An impression has prevailed that Milwaukee is subject to a large and disproportionate amount of lung and allied diseases. Statistics disprove this, its deaths from consumption being only 6 per cent., while those of Chicago are 7.75 ; of St. Louis, 9.68; of Cincinnati, 11.95; ^^^ °^ Boston, 19.31. But few cases of malarial disease occur in Milwaukee, and fewer cases of intestinal fever than in the interior of the state. The mortality among children is explained by its occurring chiefly among the poor foreign-born population, where all that can incite and aggravate disease is always to be found.

Passage source: The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880.

This, (the historical part of the health article), will doubtless call forth from the profession much additional and desirable matter, but excepting what will further appear under the head of Madison it is proper to say that we have exhausted the sources of information on the subject within our reach.

Passage source: The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880.

The tendency of these diseases is certainly to amelioration. The sanitary history of Wisconsin does not differ from that of any other state east of us, in this striking particular ; the farther you trace back the history of disease, the worse its type is found to be. It follows, then, that the improvement in public health must progress with the general improvement of the state, as has been the case with the eastern states, and that the consequent amelioration of our malarial diseases especially will tend to mitigate infectious diseases. The ameliorating influences, however, that sanitary science has brought to bear upon disease, of which England is so happy an illustration, has scarcely as yet begun to be known to us. But the time has come at last when this science is moving both the hearts and minds of thinking and humane men in the state, and its voice has been heard in our legislative halls, evoking a law by which we are, as a people, to be governed, as by any other enactment. The organization of a state board of health is a new era in our humanity. In this board is invested all legal power over the state health. To it is committed all the sanitary responsibility of the state, and the greatest good to the people at large must follow the efforts it is making.

Passage source: The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880.

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 Pewaukee City - it names this place 20 more 20 times.

Fires near this place

28 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Pewaukee between 2010 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources381
10 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources367
1 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources222
1 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources242
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800143
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800812
28 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Pewaukee: 8 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Four Halquist QuarriesStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Burg Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Carlsons Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Main Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
North End Limestone OperationLimestone, DimensionProducer
Vulcan Materials Co Sussex QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waukesha Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J J PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
James PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pewaukee in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 3 hail, 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 2000LightningPewaukee$210,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindPewaukee$50,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPewaukee$25,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 56 knots (65 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged a couple power-lines. One tree landed on a home and damaged the roof and a skylight.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPewaukee$20,000Multiple reports of trees and power-lines down.
July 1997LightningPewaukee$12,000Lightning struck two homes . One sustained a 2' by 2' hole in the roof, followed by burned holes in the ceiling and floors and damage to personal property. The second home had a burned wall, fan burned, and T.V. blew out.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPewaukee$10,000Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines were blown down along a scattered path from Pewaukee to Eagle from damaging thunderstorm wind gusts that were estimated up to 65 mph (56 knots). Tree debris took down a power line in Eagle.
July 1999Flash FloodPewaukee$10,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPewaukee$3,000Scattered trees and power lines down.
May 1998LightningPewaukee$3,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPewaukee-Multiple trees and large branched down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPewaukee-The peak thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph (56 knots) measured by a trained spotter.
May 2024HailPewaukee-no account filed
June 2017HailPewaukee-no account filed
March 2007HailPewaukee-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindPewaukee-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPewaukee-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPewaukee-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
Edgewood2.5 miles22
Duplainville3.4 miles21
Pewaukee West3.7 miles22
Sussex4.2 miles20
Hartland4.6 miles22
Buena Vista4.9 miles22
Waukesha5.0 miles21
Lisbon5.1 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 PewaukeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7179546The 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 1571279. 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.