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Port Washington, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Port Washington City. It lies in ZIP code area 53074. It stands on Sauk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Port Washington West quadrangle. 12,353 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

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Port Washington within Ozaukee County

On record in Port Washington

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 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Port Washington grew from 11,250 to 12,353 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
201011,250
202012,353+1,103 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Port Washington between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
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
31 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19700
26 April 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20567
16 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20541
21 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1041
19 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18296
17 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20395
18 November 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1201
15 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018086

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Port Washington: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Washington in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2002FloodPort Washington1 hurtno account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPort Washington$5,300,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPort Washington$200,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPort Washington$200,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPort Washington$150,000no account filed
May 2004LightningPort Washington$100,000no account filed
May 2004LightningPort Washington$25,000no account filed
August 2001LightningPort Washington$15,000no account filed
May 1998LightningPort Washington$15,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPort Washington$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down.
August 1999LightningPort Washington$10,000no account filed
July 1998LightningPort Washington$8,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPort Washington-Law enforcement officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
April 1995HailPort Washington-Scattered severe thunderstorms generated damaging winds and hail up to one inch in diameter across southern Wisconsin. Powerful winds blew down many large trees and power lines in Grant County. Hail was the main afternoon event over southeast Wisconsin. One inch diameter hail was produced by two separate storms over Kenosha County. As with the morning (May 18th) severe weather across southern Wisconsin, the afternoon storms raced northeastward at speeds of 50 to 60 mph.
April 2016HailPort Washington-no account filed
April 2016HailPort Washington-no account filed
August 2015HailPort Washington-no account filed
March 2007HailPort Washington-no account filed
June 2005HailPort Washington-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindPort Washington-no account filed
May 2004HailPort Washington-no account filed
November 2003Heavy RainPort Washington-no account filed
August 2002FloodPort Washington-no account filed
March 2000HailPort Washington-no account filed
March 2000HailPort Washington-no account filed
July 1998HailPort Washington-no account filed
July 1996WaterspoutPort Washington-no account filed
June 1996FloodPort Washington-no account filed
July 1996HailPort Washington-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
Knellsville1.9 miles13
Saukville3.5 miles12
Druecker3.6 miles13
Ulao5.1 miles13
Decker5.8 miles13
Holy Cross5.8 miles12
Grafton6.2 miles13
Lakefield6.9 miles13

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 Port WashingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1016131The 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 1571797. 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.