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Algoma, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Algoma City. It lies in ZIP code area 54201. It stands on Ahnapee River. The Survey maps it on the Algoma quadrangle. 3,243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Algoma within Kewaunee County

On record in Algoma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Algoma fell from 3,357 to 3,243 between 2000 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
20003,357
20103,167-190 (-6%)
20203,243+76 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Algoma in 2019, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9900039
17 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources78

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Algoma: 21 past producers, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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
Algoma Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Algoma Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
B Wilke Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blahnik Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C Alexander Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
C Lohney Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dettman Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Algoma in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAlgoma$500,000Lightning started a fire which extensively damaged a restaurant in Nekoosa (Wood County). A severe thunderstorm with winds to 60 mph caused $150,000 damage around Algoma (Kewaunee County). Damage occurred to roofs, porches and windows as well as trees and power lines.
March 2019FloodAlgoma$121,000Runoff from rainfall and melting snow, along with clogged storm drains and ice jams, caused numerous roads, ditches, rivers and streams to flood throughout Kewaunee County. Some of the roads were damaged by the flooding and remained closed even after the water receded. One home sustained minor flood damage. The Kewaunee River reached moderate flood stage just west of Kewaunee. A county-wide state of emergency was declared on March 15th.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAlgoma$15,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindAlgoma$5,000no account filed
September 2005HailAlgoma$1,000no account filed
August 2019FloodAlgoma$500Heavy rainfall caused flooding of several roads in and around Algoma.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the Algoma area. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Algoma.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Algoma. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2011Funnel CloudAlgoma-A storm spotter reported a funnel cloud over the west side of Algoma.
July 2006HailAlgoma-no account filed
July 2006HailAlgoma-no account filed
July 2004HailAlgoma-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAlgoma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Bruemmerville2.0 miles8
Rankin3.9 miles8
Kodan5.0 miles8
Rio Creek5.9 miles8
Alaska6.0 miles8
Gregorville6.1 miles8
Rostok8.2 miles8
Euren9.0 miles8

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 AlgomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569498The 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 1560759. 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.