Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sevastopol town. It lies in ZIP code area 54235. It stands on Whitefish Bay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonport quadrangle.

Whitefish Bay within Door County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonport quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS Jacksonport quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

3,874 words on this township

History of Door County, Wisconsin, Together with Biographies of Nearly Seven Hundred Families, and Mention of 4,000 Persons .., published 1881; History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sevastopol Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sevastopol Town - 3,874 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Whitefish Bay between 2018 and 2020, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	671
3 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1926
13 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1932
26 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	436
26 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	426

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Valmy	2.4 miles	7
Institute	3.8 miles	7
Jacksonport	5.3 miles	7
Carlsville	7.1 miles	7
Stevens Hill	9.2 miles	8
Sturgeon Bay	9.8 miles	7
Egg Harbor	10.6 miles	8
Idlewild	11.2 miles	7

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 Whitefish Bay	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7995874	The 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 1577971. 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.