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Racine, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Racine City. It lies in ZIP code area 53403. It stands on Root River. The Survey maps it on the Racine South quadrangle. 77,816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Racine within Racine County

On record in Racine

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 12 of 44 shown

Every listing in Racine County

Population over time

3 figures

Racine grew from 5,107 to 77,816 between 1850 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
18505,107
201078,860
202077,816-1,044 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

16,304 words on this township

Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871 names this settlement in its chapter on Racine City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Resolved , That we, the early settlers of Racine county, extend a cordial greeting to each other on this, our first gathering, to revive the recollections and renew the friendships of the early days ; and we would return devout thanks to Him who has sustained and blessed us hitherto.

Passage source: Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871.

Resolved , That we greet with hearty welcome, all our fellow citizens, of every nationality, who, though at a later day, have come in to cast their lot with us, and to aid, we trust, in building up a community not unworthy of a position in the u Great Republic;" and hope they may perpetuate the remembrance of the early days in the settlement of this county by annual gatherings like this, after we shall have passed to that land from which there is no return.

Passage source: Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871.

Resolved , That for beauty of landscape, fertility of soil, and easy access to market, for agricultural improvement? for improved stock, for general thrift, intelligence and morals, Racine county will, in our judgment, compare favorably with any other in the State.

Passage source: Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871.

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 Racine City - it names this place 123 more 123 times.

Fires near this place

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Racine between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203640
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184317
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources183671
10 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806005
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202165
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801102
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181717
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181719

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine 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 Racine: 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
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Racine in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2006: 13 hail, 8 lightning, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
July 2000Flash FloodRacine$1,300,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindRacine$150,000no account filed
October 2001HailRacine$100,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindRacine$100,000no account filed
October 2001FloodRacine$50,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindRacine$50,000no account filed
July 2006LightningRacine$10,000Lightning struck a home on in the 1600 block of Edgewood Ave., resulting in a roof fire.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRacine$10,000no account filed
September 2001LightningRacine$9,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRacine$5,000Trees down.
June 2002LightningRacine$5,000no account filed
August 2002LightningRacine$5,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindRacine$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailRacine$3,000Wind driven hail dented cars and siding.
July 2006LightningRacine$3,000Lightning hit a tree, which then fell onto a car in the city of Racine.
June 1998LightningRacine$3,000no account filed
July 2006LightningRacine$2,000Lightning struck the chimney of a home in the 1000 block on Main St. in Racine. There was no fire, but the top portion of the chimney was destroyed, with bricks littering the nearby yard and sidewalk. The time of occurrence, 08CST is only an estimate - all that is known is that the lightning strike occurred during the morning hours.
September 1997FloodRacine$1,000no account filed
September 1997Strong WindRacine$1,000no account filed
July 1997LightningRacine$100no account filed
May 2006HailRacine-no account filed
May 2006HailRacine-no account filed
May 2006Funnel CloudRacine-no account filed
August 2005HailRacine-no account filed
August 2005HailRacine-no account filed
May 2004HailRacine-no account filed
May 2004HailRacine-no account filed
June 2004HailRacine-no account filed
June 2004HailRacine-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRacine-no account filed
November 2003Heavy RainRacine-no account filed
June 2002HailRacine-no account filed
June 2002HailRacine-no account filed
August 2002Funnel CloudRacine-no account filed
May 2000HailRacine-no account filed
July 2000FloodRacine-no account filed
April 1999FloodRacine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
North Bay2.7 miles16
Elmwood Park3.1 miles15
Ives3.3 miles16
Wind Point4.1 miles16
Mount Pleasant4.3 miles15
Waxdale5.4 miles16
Sturtevant6.2 miles16
Crestview6.4 miles16

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 RacineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q40340The 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 1572015. 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.