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Baldwin, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Baldwin Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54002. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin East quadrangle. 4,291 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Baldwin within St. Croix County

Population over time

2 figures

Baldwin grew from 3,957 to 4,291 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
20103,957
20204,291+334 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19-5587
20 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-5761
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-4859
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-3958
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20-3417
8 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1832178
8 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-3217
12 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-3332

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Baldwin: 21 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 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
Baldwin Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Baldwin Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Baldwin Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baldwin Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Deneen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H L Olsen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammond Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hanson Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lilly Hanson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Croix County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBaldwin2 hurtTwo semi-trucks were blown off Interstate 94 near Baldwin, Wisconsin. In addition, numerous trees were blown down in the area.
June 2013Flash FloodBaldwin$125,000Excessive rainfall caused flood waters to rise up to 6 inches across Highway 12 and 63 in Baldwin.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$5,000Two barns were damaged, shingles were blown off four houses, along with several small trees uprooted between Baldwin and Hammond, Wisconsin.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Report of large tree branches down in the Village of Baldwin.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-The storm caused scattered trees and power lines down across the southern half of St. Croix County.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Several large trees were blown down north of Baldwin.
July 2010HailBaldwin-Nickel and quarter size hail was reported near Baldwin, Wisconsin.
August 2010Flash FloodBaldwin-An apartment building and nursing home was evacuated due to flood waters. The southeast portion of Baldwin was hardest hit. A concrete bridge was washed out in town, along with 15 feet of roadway.
June 2010Flash FloodBaldwin-Flood waters caused a local creek in Windmill Park to overflow, which caused water to flood areas around Baldwin, Wisconsin for several hours. Several roads were closed during the height of the flooding.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Officer estimated many hundreds of trees felled at Highland Campground on North side of Eau Galled Reservoir. Trained spotter reported trees were downed from Northwest to Southeast.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Large trees down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-no account filed
June 2025HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 2025HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 2025HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 2025HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 2025HailBaldwin-no account filed
May 2022HailBaldwin-no account filed
July 2008HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 2001HailBaldwin-no account filed
May 2001HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 1999HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 1997HailBaldwin-no account filed
June 1996HailBaldwin-no account filed
April 1994HailBaldwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Croix 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
Hammond3.4 miles11
Dahl3.4 miles11
Palmer4.4 miles11
Woodville4.5 miles11
Wildwood6.5 miles11
Centerville7.2 miles11
Erin Corner8.5 miles12
Hersey8.6 miles11

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 BaldwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2435601The 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 1581586. 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.