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Williams Bay, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Williams Bay Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53191. It stands on Harris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Walworth quadrangle. 2,953 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Williams Bay within Walworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Williams Bay grew from 2,564 to 2,953 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
20102,564
20202,953+389 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

17 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Williams Bay between 2012 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20340
3 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources222
8 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources174
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800429
26 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-084
28 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources171
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources109
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Williams Bay: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Devil's Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mann Brothers, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mauritz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stewart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams Bay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams Bay in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWilliams Bay$25,000Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down a few large trees and powerlines. One tree fell on a vehicle and damaged it. the wind gust was measured at Badger High School, part of the Milwuakee TV-6 WITI school network.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliams Bay$8,000A tree fell on a vehicle.
May 1999LightningWilliams Bay$3,000no account filed
May 1999LightningWilliams Bay$3,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWilliams Bay$2,000A few large trees and power lines down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWilliams Bay$1,000A 70 foot Pine Tree was snapped halfway up the tree.
May 2018HailWilliams Bay$1,000Wind driven ping pong size hail broke a window on the 90 foot dome of the Yerkes Observatory.
September 2021HailWilliams Bay-Penny to ping pong sized hail.
May 2018HailWilliams Bay-Picture provided.
June 2013HailWilliams Bay-An ham radio operator reported hail up to 1 inch 1 mile east-northeast of Williams Bay.
June 2013HailWilliams Bay-A law enforcement official reported hail up to 0.88 of an inch on the campus of George Williams College.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWilliams Bay-Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled about a dozen trees in the Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy of Williams Bay in Walworth County. It was estimated that 1000 volunteer hours and $6000 would be needed to clean up the tree debris over a span of about 6 weeks. This clean-up cost is indirectly related to the thunderstorm winds. Several trees were knocked over by the winds within the Village of Williams Bay, which resulted in snapped power-lines. Monetary damage amounts from the Village were not available.
July 2007HailWilliams Bay-no account filed
August 1998Funnel CloudWilliams Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Lake Como2.2 miles19
East Delavan2.4 miles19
Fontana2.6 miles19
Linton3.7 miles19
Como3.9 miles19
Inlet4.1 miles19
Lake Lawn4.3 miles19
Walworth4.5 miles19

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 Williams BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1758449The 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 1576761. 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.