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Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Whitefish Bay Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53217. It stands on Lincoln Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milwaukee quadrangle. 14,954 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Whitefish Bay within Milwaukee County

On record in Whitefish Bay

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 14 shown

Every listing in Milwaukee County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitefish Bay grew from 14,110 to 14,954 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
201014,110
202014,954+844 (+6%)

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

27 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Whitefish Bay between 2014 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
7 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767727
13 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1769924
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804347
29 July 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1764515
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804468
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804397

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 Whitefish Bay: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, 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
Cerac Inc.REE, ThoriumPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitefish Bay in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitefish Bay$5,000no 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
Shorewood1.8 miles18
Glendale2.4 miles19
Fox Point3.0 miles19
River Hills4.4 miles19
Bayside4.6 miles19
Brown Deer4.9 miles19
Milwaukee5.1 miles18
Wauwatosa7.2 miles20

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 BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1944698The 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 1576675. 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.