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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Wauwatosa City. It lies in ZIP code area 53213. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wauwatosa quadrangle. 48,387 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Wauwatosa within Milwaukee County

On record in Wauwatosa

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 20 shown

Every listing in Milwaukee County

Population over time

2 figures

Wauwatosa grew from 46,396 to 48,387 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
201046,396
202048,387+1,991 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

36 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Wauwatosa between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778249
26 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002767
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806123
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806080
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806070
1 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803975

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wauwatosa: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wauwatosa in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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 1998Flash FloodWauwatosa1 hurt, $22,140,000no account filed
September 2006Flash FloodWauwatosa$100,000no account filed
September 2000Flash FloodWauwatosa$100,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa$50,000A trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 70 mph (61 knots) along a path from 2 miles west of Wauwatosa to just east of Cudahy. A downed power line sparked a house fire 3 miles southwest of downtown Milwaukee.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa$30,000A swath of significant tree damage. Approximately 80 trees damaged or downed.
April 2026Flash FloodWauwatosa$25,000Social media pictures and videos of cars stuck in flooded roads in downtown Milwaukee. DOT cameras show a few locations with cars stuck in water at highway underpasses.
June 2001LightningWauwatosa$25,000no account filed
June 2008LightningWauwatosa$20,000Lightning struck a home and started a fire that damage the roof.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa$10,000A large tree uprooted and fallen onto car.
August 2002Flash FloodWauwatosa$10,000no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Public estimates winds at 60-65 MPH.
May 2014HailWauwatosa-The large hail resulted in broken windows, dented vehicles, and extensive damage to trees and shrubs.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Strong winds with an intensifying storm over Milwaukee County.
June 2014HailWauwatosa-Estimated 55 mph winds with the nickel size hail. Small tree limbs down and some street flooding due to 0.75 to 1.00 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Large trees were either uprooted or split by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Widespread large trees down. Measured peak gust on UW-Milwaukee campus.
April 2020HailWauwatosa-no account filed
August 2017HailWauwatosa-no account filed
April 2014HailWauwatosa-no account filed
April 2014HailWauwatosa-no account filed
July 2006HailWauwatosa-no account filed
March 2005HailWauwatosa-no account filed
March 2005HailWauwatosa-no account filed
May 2004HailWauwatosa-no account filed
May 2000HailWauwatosa-no account filed
April 1999FloodWauwatosa-no account filed
May 1995HailWauwatosa-no account filed
June 1995HailWauwatosa-no account filed

Every storm 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
West Allis2.3 miles20
West Milwaukee3.2 miles18
Milwaukee5.4 miles18
Greenfield6.1 miles18
West Granville6.6 miles20
Shorewood6.9 miles18
Glendale7.0 miles19
Whitefish Bay7.2 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 WauwatosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1006865The 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 1576335. 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.