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.
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
Rufus Arndt Houselisted 1985
Barfield-Staples Houselisted 1985
George Gabel Houselisted 1985
Harrison Hardie Houselisted 1985
Horace W. Hatch Houselisted 1985
Halbert D. Jenkins Houselisted 1985
John F. McEwens Houselisted 1985
Frederick Sperling Houselisted 1985
Herman Uihlein Houselisted 1983
Fred W. Ullius Jr. Houselisted 1987
William Van Altena Houselisted 1985
G. B. Van Devan Houselisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresWhitefish 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 14,110 | |
| 2020 | 14,954 | +844 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 2014Regional 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/undetermined | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1778249 |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767699 |
| 7 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767727 |
| 13 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1769924 |
| 8 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804347 |
| 29 July 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1764515 |
| 13 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804468 |
| 10 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804397 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerac Inc. | REE, Thorium | Past Producer | ||
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitefish Bay | $5,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorewood | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Glendale | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Fox Point | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| River Hills | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Bayside | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Brown Deer | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Milwaukee | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Wauwatosa | 7.2 miles | 20 |
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 Q1944698 | 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 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.







