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Almond, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Almond town. It lies in ZIP code area 54909. The Survey maps it on the Almond quadrangle. 424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Almond within Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Almond fell from 448 to 424 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
2010448
2020424-24 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Almond between 1993 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTNING ARRESTOR FIRE
17 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Almond in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindAlmond$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated to near 70 mph near Almond. The storm downed several trees, including a large section of a willow. The tree fell onto a 28' diameter swimming pool, severely damaging the pool. A flag pole was also damaged.
May 2024HailAlmond-Quarter size hail fell near Almond. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAlmond-A thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph was measured near Almond.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAlmond-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs and one tree, larger than a foot in diameter, in Almond.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAlmond-Thunderstorm winds downed trees north of Almond on County Highway J.
September 2017HailAlmond-Two inch diameter hail fell in Almond.
June 2004Tornado (F1)Almond-no account filed
July 1998LightningAlmond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
West Almond3.4 miles6
Blaine6.0 miles6
Bancroft6.7 miles7
West Bancroft7.3 miles7
Keene8.3 miles6
Coddington10.7 miles7
Arnott13.8 miles6
Fancher14.1 miles6

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 AlmondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671180The 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 1560801. 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.