1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Milwaukee—563,531, America/Chicago, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in and county seat of Milwaukee County, and largest city in State of Wisconsin, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Milwaukee is GeoNames ID 5263045. Its recorded administrative path is Milwaukee County → Wisconsin → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Milwaukee occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-06-25; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Milwaukee ranks 991 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 36; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 162. Its 563,531 population value is 0.72 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.69 times the 816,326 regional median. Milwaukee sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Milwaukee's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Milwaukee's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Chicago at 133.86 km with 2,664,452 recorded people; Indianapolis at 391.788 km with 887,642 recorded people; Detroit at 404.958 km with 645,705 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 271.098 km. Compared with Chicago, Milwaukee's recorded population is 0.21 times as large. Against Milwaukee, Chicago follows Cook County → Illinois → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses the shared America/Chicago identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Milwaukee's. Against Milwaukee, Indianapolis follows Marion County → Indiana → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Indiana/Indianapolis instead of America/Chicago, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Milwaukee's. Against Milwaukee, Detroit follows Wayne County → Michigan → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Detroit instead of America/Chicago, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Milwaukee's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 831 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Milwaukee's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 5263045, the coordinate pair 43.0389 / 87.9065, country rank 36 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4887398 at 133.86 km bind Milwaukee to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Milwaukee's reference point is 43.0389° north and 87.9065° west. The IANA identifier America/Chicago is shared by 11 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Milwaukee's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Milwaukee's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Milwaukee's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Milwaukee at 188 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Milwaukee's closest other entries in this atlas are Chicago (133.86 km), Indianapolis (391.788 km), Detroit (404.958 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.