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Saint Francis, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in St. Francis City. It lies in ZIP code area 53235. The Survey maps it on the Greendale quadrangle. 9,161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Saint Francis within Milwaukee County

On record in Saint Francis

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Francis fell from 9,365 to 9,161 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
20109,365
20209,161-204 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Saint Francis between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Natural1
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
6 September 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778160
5 August 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1383
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001474
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1343
24 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1762641
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000944
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1734269
27 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1391

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 Saint Francis: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Dcs MillIronPlant

Every working recorded in Milwaukee 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
Cudahy1.0 miles17
South Milwaukee4.0 miles17
Milwaukee5.2 miles18
Oak Creek5.7 miles17
West Milwaukee5.9 miles18
Carrollville6.2 miles17
Greendale6.5 miles16
Greenfield7.2 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 Saint FrancisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2001652The 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 1572924. 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.