Welcome to Summit Center ...
Summit Center is located in Waukesha County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Summit Center, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was in a book dated 1895.
Summit Center is 870 feet [265 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Summit Center lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Communities near Summit Center ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Summit Center.
- Waukesha
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- New Berlin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Brookfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brookfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
- Brookfield is located in Waukesha County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 39,164 people
- Menomonee Falls
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Watertown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Oconomowoc
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oconomowoc have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconomowoc
- Oconomowoc is located in Waukesha County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17,160 people
- Hartford
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Pewaukee
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pewaukee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pewaukee
- Pewaukee is located in Waukesha County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,703 people
- Richfield
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Richfield. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
- Richfield is located in Washington County
- Estimated population in 2015: 11,530 people
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Richfield
- From Summit Center to Richfield
- Sussex
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.
We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Summit Center. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Summit Center.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Summit Center. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Summit Center.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Summit Center. See our Newspapers Page for Summit Center.
Adding Summit Center to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Summit Center in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Summit Center was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Summit Center.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Waukesha, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Summit Center - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |