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.
Population over time
2 figuresWhittlesey 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 105 | |
| 2020 | 97 | -8 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1951 USGS Medford quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Medford quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Medford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 1998 | Other causes | 1.4 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DUST COVER |
| 2 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 31 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ortonville Quarry & Mill | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Black River Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Black River Gravel Pit # 7 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black River Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black River Gravel Pit #3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black River Gravel Pit #4 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black River Gravel Pit #5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black River Gravel Pit #6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Chelsea Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Chelsea Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittlesey | $60,000 | The roofs to a workshop and a house were blown off and trees were uprooted in Whittlesey. |
| June 2009 | Flood | Whittlesey | $10,000 | Several culverts and roads were washed out in the township of Hammel. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Whittlesey | $7,500 | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittlesey | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down. Other trees were blown down as well across eastern parts of the county. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittlesey | $2,000 | Trees were blown down and across County Road M south of Chelsea. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whittlesey | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Whittlesey | - | Public reported quarter sized hail west of Whittlesey. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Whittlesey | - | Half dollar sized hail fell south of Rib Lake. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Whittlesey | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Whittlesey | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Whittlesey | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Whittlesey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Medford | 5.9 miles | 6 | |
| Murat | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Little Black | 8.1 miles | 6 | |
| Rib Lake | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Queenstown | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Westboro | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Stetsonville | 10.1 miles | 6 |
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 Whittlesey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7996933 | 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 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.




