West Bend, Wisconsin

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Washington County

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 records

• Amity Leather Products Company Factorylisted 2002
• Barton Elementary Schoollisted 2018
• Barton Historic Districtlisted 1992
• Leander F. Frisby Houselisted 1985
• Gadow's Milllisted 1974
• St. Agnes Convent and Schoollisted 2010
• St. Peter's Churchlisted 1983
• Washington County Courthouse and Jaillisted 1982
• West Bend Chicago and North Western Depotlisted 2008
• West Bend Post Officelisted 2000
• West Bend Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2023
• West Bend Theater

West Bend grew from 1,058 to 31,752 between 1870 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.

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.

• 1904 USGS West Bend quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS West Bend quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS West Bend quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of West Bend between 2018 and 2020, burning about 68 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Barton
• Young America
• Keowns
• Myra
• Nabob
• Orchard Grove

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Bend: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Bend in 58 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 24 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 11 lightning, 4 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1576453. 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.