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West Milwaukee, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in West Milwaukee Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53214. The Survey maps it on the Milwaukee quadrangle. 4,114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

West Milwaukee within Milwaukee County

On record in West Milwaukee

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

West Milwaukee fell from 4,206 to 4,114 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
20104,206
20204,114-92 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

29 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of West Milwaukee between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203500
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
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005439
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202979
24 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1762641

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Milwaukee: 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Milwaukee in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2010LightningWest Milwaukee2 hurtTwo sisters, 25 years old and 30 years old, attempting to run home from a nearby sandwich shop, were injured when struck by lightning. They were taken to a nearby hospital and admitted for treatment of their injuries.
August 2016Flash FloodWest Milwaukee$50,000Two to three inches or rain in approximately 1 hour resulted in the flooding of creeks and streets. Several cars were stalled or stranded, especially on Layton Avenue just west of Howell Avenue. A car drove into a drainage ditch when the driver could not tell where the parking lot ended and a drainage ditch began. Knee deep water was reported on the streets. Some basements flooded, and manhole covers were reported blown off by the overflowing storm sewers.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWest Milwaukee$30,000A large tree down on cars at the intersection of 20th St. and West Greenfield Ave.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Milwaukee$7,000Downed tree on top of a car.
May 2024FloodWest Milwaukee$3,000A car lost control and hit the median wall after driving through deep, ponded water during heavy rain in the left lane of southbound Interstate 94/43 on the high rise bridge. The lane was briefly closed while Milwaukee Public Works addressed the high water issue.
April 2016HailWest Milwaukee-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 Allis1.8 miles20
Wauwatosa3.2 miles20
Milwaukee3.9 miles18
Greenfield4.1 miles18
Greendale5.1 miles16
Saint Francis5.9 miles16
Hales Corners6.6 miles18
Cudahy6.9 miles17

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 West MilwaukeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1660776The 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 1576537. 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.