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Whittlesey, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Chelsea town. It lies in ZIP code area 54451. The Survey maps it on the Medford quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Whittlesey within Taylor County

Population over time

2 figures

Whittlesey fell from 105 to 97 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
2010105
202097-8 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Whittlesey between 1992 and 2018, burning about 52 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking5
Other causes5
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Other causes1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUST COVER
2 September 2010Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Whittlesey: 16 past producers, 10 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ortonville Quarry & MillGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Black River Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Black River Gravel Pit # 7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black River Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black River Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black River Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black River Gravel Pit #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black River Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chelsea Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chelsea Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whittlesey in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWhittlesey$60,000The roofs to a workshop and a house were blown off and trees were uprooted in Whittlesey.
June 2009FloodWhittlesey$10,000Several culverts and roads were washed out in the township of Hammel.
June 2007HailWhittlesey$7,500no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWhittlesey$3,000Several trees were knocked down. Other trees were blown down as well across eastern parts of the county.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindWhittlesey$2,000Trees were blown down and across County Road M south of Chelsea.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWhittlesey$1,000no account filed
July 2023HailWhittlesey-Public reported quarter sized hail west of Whittlesey.
August 2015HailWhittlesey-Half dollar sized hail fell south of Rib Lake.
September 2014HailWhittlesey-no account filed
August 2013HailWhittlesey-no account filed
April 2011HailWhittlesey-no account filed
June 2007HailWhittlesey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Chelsea4.8 miles10
Medford5.9 miles6
Murat6.6 miles8
Little Black8.1 miles6
Rib Lake9.1 miles8
Queenstown9.1 miles10
Westboro9.3 miles10
Stetsonville10.1 miles6

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 WhittleseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7996933The 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 1576708. 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.