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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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
Harry W. Bolens Houselisted 1983
Edward Dodge Houselisted 1975
Hoffman House Hotellisted 1984
Old Ozaukee County Courthouselisted 1976
Port Washington Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2000
Port Washington Fire Engine Houselisted 2009
Port Washington Light Stationlisted 1999
Port Washington North Breakwater Lightlisted 2018
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churchlisted 1977
TENNIE AND LAURA (Shipwreck)listed 2008
Population over time
2 figuresPort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11,250 | |
| 2020 | 12,353 | +1,103 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Port Washington quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Port Washington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Port Washington quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Port Washington West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2018Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19700 |
| 26 April 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20567 |
| 16 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20541 |
| 21 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1041 |
| 19 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 18296 |
| 17 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20395 |
| 18 November 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1201 |
| 15 November 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018086 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
29 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Flood | Port Washington | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Port Washington | $5,300,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Port Washington | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Port Washington | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Washington | $150,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Lightning | Port Washington | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Lightning | Port Washington | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Lightning | Port Washington | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Lightning | Port Washington | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Washington | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Port Washington | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Port Washington | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Washington | - | Law enforcement officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph). |
| April 1995 | Hail | Port 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 2016 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Heavy Rain | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Flood | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Waterspout | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Port Washington | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knellsville | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Saukville | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Druecker | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Ulao | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Decker | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Holy Cross | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Grafton | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lakefield | 6.9 miles | 13 |
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 Washington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1016131 | The 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.






