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.
Population over time
2 figuresWilliams 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,564 | |
| 2020 | 2,953 | +389 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1893 USGS Delavan quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Delavan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Walworth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2012Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20340 |
| 3 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 222 |
| 8 May 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 174 |
| 8 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1800429 |
| 26 May 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 18-084 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 171 |
| 26 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 109 |
| 21 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 64 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devil's Hill Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mann Brothers, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mauritz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stewart Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Williams Bay Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams Bay | $25,000 | Powerful 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams Bay | $8,000 | A tree fell on a vehicle. |
| May 1999 | Lightning | Williams Bay | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Lightning | Williams Bay | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams Bay | $2,000 | A few large trees and power lines down. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams Bay | $1,000 | A 70 foot Pine Tree was snapped halfway up the tree. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Williams Bay | $1,000 | Wind driven ping pong size hail broke a window on the 90 foot dome of the Yerkes Observatory. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Williams Bay | - | Penny to ping pong sized hail. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Williams Bay | - | Picture provided. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Williams Bay | - | An ham radio operator reported hail up to 1 inch 1 mile east-northeast of Williams Bay. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Williams Bay | - | A law enforcement official reported hail up to 0.88 of an inch on the campus of George Williams College. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams 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 2007 | Hail | Williams Bay | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Williams Bay | - | 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.
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 Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1758449 | 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 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.







