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Aniwa, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Aniwa Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54408. The Survey maps it on the Aniwa quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.

Aniwa within Shawano County

Population over time

2 figures

Aniwa fell from 260 to 243 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
2010260
2020243-17 (-7%)

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

63 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Aniwa between 1993 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 August 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWOOD BROTHERS WELDER
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #1
22 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER PARK
9 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWARM SPRING DAY
7 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRADAR ALERT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Aniwa: 20 past producers, 11 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arthur Weden Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dale Keen Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hogarty Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mildred Walters Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Granite Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snell Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Woodland Drive Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Birnamwood Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Birnamwood Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Donald Thompson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aniwa in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 1994Tornado (F1)Aniwa$5,000no account filed
July 2025HailAniwa-Golf ball size hail fell near Birnamwood. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAniwa-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Aniwa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindAniwa-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Maple Road and U.S. Highway 45.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindAniwa-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAniwa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Birnamwood5.2 miles7
Mattoon9.1 miles9
Eland9.5 miles7
Paac Ciinak11.1 miles7
Shepley11.7 miles7
Wittenberg12.7 miles7
Regina12.9 miles7
Almon13.7 miles7

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 AniwaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2180499The 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 1560877. 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.