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.
Population over time
2 figuresWhitelaw 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 757 | |
| 2020 | 737 | -20 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Reedsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Whitelaw quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 25 |
| 11 April 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020011 |
| 24 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018010 |
| 21 March 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 6 |
| 13 January 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 6 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitelaw | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Flood | Whitelaw | $1,000 | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding at Highway 10 and Pine Street in Whitelaw. |
| September 1999 | Hail | Whitelaw | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Flood | Whitelaw | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Whitelaw | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitelaw | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cato | 2.1 miles | 9 | |
| Reifs Mills | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Branch | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Taus | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Grimms | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| North Grimms | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Madsen | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Clarks Mills | 4.4 miles | 8 |
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 Whitelaw | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979029 | 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 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.




