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Whitelaw, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Whitelaw Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54247. The Survey maps it on the Whitelaw quadrangle. 737 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Whitelaw within Manitowoc County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitelaw fell from 757 to 737 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
2010757
2020737-20 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Whitelaw between 2018 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources25
11 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020011
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018010
21 March 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6
13 January 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitelaw in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitelaw$150,000no account filed
June 2017FloodWhitelaw$1,000Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding at Highway 10 and Pine Street in Whitelaw.
September 1999HailWhitelaw-no account filed
June 1999FloodWhitelaw-no account filed
August 1998HailWhitelaw-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitelaw-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Cato2.1 miles9
Reifs Mills2.8 miles9
Branch3.2 miles9
Taus3.7 miles9
Grimms4.3 miles9
North Grimms4.3 miles9
Madsen4.4 miles8
Clarks Mills4.4 miles8

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 WhitelawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979029The 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 1576683. 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.