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Whitehall, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whitehall City. It lies in ZIP code area 54773. It lies near Irvin Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Whitehall quadrangle. 1,645 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Whitehall within Trempealeau County

On record in Whitehall

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Whitehall grew from 267 to 1,645 between 1880 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
1880267
20101,558
20201,645+87 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Whitehall between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources53
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6021931
8 April 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources481921
2 November 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources34

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Whitehall: 24 past producers, 11 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Bautch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coral City Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
D Lyngen Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eugene Rebarchek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Independence Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
L Mcrae Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
N Osgood Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nehring Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Raymond Sobieck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$120,000Emergency management reported trees and power lines down across central Trempealeau County, mainly in the Independence and Whitehall areas.
June 2017HailWhitehall$67,000Egg sized hail was reported west of Whitehall.
June 1998Flash FloodWhitehall$60,000no account filed
July 2011LightningWhitehall$35,000Lightning struck a tree and started a fire in the attic of the nearby house. The damage from the fire was limited to the attic, but smoke damage to bedrooms on the upper level made the house uninhabitable until repairs were made. Firefighters were on the scene for about 2 hours.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$25,000Just south of Whitehall, a pole barn was blown down, other large structures were damaged and numerous tree limbs were blown onto the highway.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$25,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$25,000no account filed
July 2019Heavy RainWhitehall$20,000A fatal accident occurred during a thunderstorm with heavy rain south of Whitehall. Authorities believe weather was a factor in the head-on two vehicle crash. One person was killed with the other driver sustaining serious injuries.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$15,000Farm outbuildings were damaged southeast of Whitehall.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$14,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$10,000Power lines were blown down with numerous power outages reported across the northern half of Trempealeau County.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Whitehall.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Whitehall.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$4,000no account filed
August 2006HailWhitehall$3,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$3,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$3,000no account filed
June 2005HailWhitehall$2,500no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$2,500no account filed
May 2001HailWhitehall$2,500no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$2,500no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$2,000Trees were blown down in Whitehall.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$2,000Trees were blown down southwest of Whitehall.
July 2004HailWhitehall$1,500no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$750no account filed
October 2023Heavy RainWhitehall-An automated weather observation station reported 2.84 inches of rainfall in Whitehall.
June 2017HailWhitehall-Golfball sized hail fell in Whitehall.
August 2010Heavy RainWhitehall-In three hours, 3.17 inches of rain fell.
September 2010Heavy RainWhitehall-The storm total rainfall amounted to 6.67 inches.
May 2013HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2013HailWhitehall-no account filed
August 2010HailWhitehall-no account filed
July 2004HailWhitehall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Coral City2.2 miles12
Independence5.6 miles12
Pleasantville6.0 miles12
Elk Creek6.0 miles12
Blair6.6 miles13
New City (historical)6.7 miles12
Pigeon Falls6.9 miles13
Hale7.4 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 WhitehallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1007811The 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 1576681. 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.