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Westfield, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Westfield Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53964. The Survey maps it on the Westfield East quadrangle. 1,302 people lived here at the 2020 count.

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Westfield within Marquette County

Population over time

2 figures

Westfield grew from 1,254 to 1,302 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
20101,254
20201,302+48 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Westfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 were 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
Debris and open burning68
Equipment and vehicle use55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Other causes10
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8TH AVE FIRE
3 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCO M FIRE
3 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRANSFORMER 755
3 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westfield in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2000HailWestfield2 hurt, $1,000,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield$200,000A swath of significant tree damage due to estimated winds of 100 mph. Trees uprooted or snapped. Swaths of pine trees leveled. One farm outbuilding was destroyed with another partially damaged. A few other buildings with roof covering removed.
August 2005Tornado (F1)Westfield$100,000This tornado spun up at 1708CST about 1.7 miles north-northeast of Westfield, or about 0.4 miles north-northwest of the intersection of CTH E and 7th Court, just east of Interstate 39/STH 51. The tornado headed northeast and ended at 1722CST about 7.2 miles northeast of Westfield, or about 0.4 mile north of the intersection of CTH Z and 11th Rd. O one property, a residential home sustained minor roof damage, and there was minor damage to two out-buildings and farm equipment/machinery. On another property, minor damage to a silo was noted. Extensive tree and power-line damage was reported along the entire path of the tornado. Average path length was about 75 yards.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWestfield$75,000Severe thunderstorms with strong wind gusts produced damage across Marquette County, including a 10-mile wide swath of damage from west of Westfield to Germania. The damaging winds downed power lines and trees, including a tree that crushed a parked car on CTH B in Montello. Five homes received minor damage to roofs, siding and gutters due to tree debris striking the homes. At the peak of the storm, 937 homes were without electricity. A mesonet site one mile north of Westfield recorded a 67 mph (58 knot) wind gust.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWestfield$40,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts toppled large trees and broke branches that brought down some power-lines in locations scattered across the county. Three trailer homes about 6 miles east-northeast of Montello were damaged as two large trees came down in the winds.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWestfield$30,000Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds estimated up to 65 mph that caused extensive tree damage in a 4 mile wide swath from Westfield to Montello. Trees fell on two homes at Buffalo Lake causing roof damage. Several power lines were damaged by tree debris and there were scattered power outages in the Montello area. Most likley this wind damage was associated with the forward flank downdraft of the supercell thunderstorm that generated a F1 tornado in Marquette County a few minutes later.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWestfield$15,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWestfield$10,000Many trees and tree limbs down in the western portion of the county. A small shed was rolled down a driveway near Westfield. A significant amount of trees down in the Endeavor area with a reported wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield$8,000Numerous softwood trees snapped or uprooted. Roof panels missing from building.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield$7,000Multiple trees and branches down in the area.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWestfield$6,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield$5,000Several trees snapped or topped.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWestfield$5,000Multiple branches and trees down in Lawrence.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield$3,000Scattered trees down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWestfield$3,000A few trees uprooted.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWestfield$2,000Large trees were uprooted.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWestfield$2,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindWestfield$2,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield$1,000Two sections of a farm irrigation sprinkler were tipped over.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWestfield$1,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWestfield$1,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWestfield$500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Personal weather station recording 59 mph wind gust.
June 2024HailWestfield-Estimated ping pong size hail at a golf course.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Estimated wind gust from a citizen.
July 2017HailWestfield-Accumulating hail and torrential rainfall.
July 2017HailWestfield-Hail accumulated to a depth of 1-2 inches.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Many trees, branches, and power lines down throughout the county.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Law enforcement officials reported a tree down across a road in Westfield Township, blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 50 knots (58 mph). There were other nearby reports of large broken tree branches or knocked-over trees.
May 2011HailWestfield-A trained spotter reported leaves stripped from trees in Westfield by large hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWestfield-Sheriff deputies reported damage to large trees from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (64 mph).
July 1994HailWestfield-An isolated severe thunderstorm deposited hail up to nickel-size at Westfield (Marquette County).
August 2025HailWestfield-no account filed
September 2021HailWestfield-no account filed
August 2020HailWestfield-no account filed
July 2017HailWestfield-no account filed
May 2011HailWestfield-no account filed
May 2011HailWestfield-no account filed
July 2006HailWestfield-no account filed
October 2006HailWestfield-no account filed
October 2006HailWestfield-no account filed
October 2006HailWestfield-no account filed
October 2006HailWestfield-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWestfield-no account filed
May 2001HailWestfield-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWestfield-no account filed
September 1998HailWestfield-no account filed
June 1998FloodWestfield-no account filed
July 1997HailWestfield-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWestfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Lawrence2.7 miles11
Harrisville4.7 miles10
Oxford8.2 miles11
Packwaukee8.5 miles10
Buffalo Shore Estates9.9 miles12
Budsin9.9 miles10
Montello11.2 miles10
Endeavor11.7 miles12

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 WestfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671540The 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 1576576. 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.

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.