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Alma Center, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alma Center Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54611. It stands on Hayden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alma Center quadrangle. 487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Alma Center within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Alma Center fell from 503 to 487 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
2010503
2020487-16 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Alma Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
19 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUNLAP RD.
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAVON RD FIRE
17 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alma Center in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 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
October 2006HailAlma Center$20,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$10,000no account filed
July 2025Flash FloodAlma Center$5,000County Dispatch reported water flowing over County Road F between Black River Falls and Alma Center with the roadway washed out in spots.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$5,000Trees were blown down in unspecified locations, mainly across the northwest part of the county.
June 2014FloodAlma Center$5,000Runoff from heavy rain caused water to go over East Casper Road north of Black River Falls. The road remained closed after the flood waters receded due to damage caused by the water.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Alma Center.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$5,000Many trees and power lines were blown down in the central part of the county, which included the cities of Alma Center, Merrillan and Black River Falls. The damage caused power outages to towns and rural areas.
October 2006HailAlma Center$5,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$2,000Trees were blown down in Alma Center.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$2,000Trees were blown down southeast of Alma Center.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$2,000Trees were blown down along old Highway 95 between Merrillan and Alma Center.
September 2005HailAlma Center$500no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAlma Center$200A few trees were blown down across State Highway 95 just east of Alma Center.
May 2025HailAlma Center-The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile northeast of Alma Center.
May 2024HailAlma Center-The public reported 0.75 inch hail in Alma Center. Report was relayed via mPING.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAlma Center-The public reported tree damage 4 miles south of Alma Center.
April 2013FloodAlma Center-The bridge for County Highway F in Alma Center had water on it from the South Fork Halls Creek.
April 2009HailAlma Center-Law Enforcement officials reported dime to penny size hail in Alma Center, Black River Falls, and Merrillan.
July 2011Funnel CloudAlma Center-no account filed
July 2011HailAlma Center-no account filed
April 2006HailAlma Center-no account filed
August 2006HailAlma Center-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAlma Center-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAlma Center-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAlma Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Merrillan3.8 miles13
North Branch4.7 miles13
Wrightsville (historical)5.2 miles13
Hixton6.5 miles13
Sechlerville7.7 miles13
Hatfield9.7 miles11
Northfield10.1 miles13
Black River Falls10.3 miles13

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 Alma CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2669803The 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 1560797. 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.

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.