Bangor, Wisconsin
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bangor Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54614. It stands on Dutch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bangor quadrangle. 1,437 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.
On record in Bangor
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 1 record
- Bangor Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresBangor fell from 1,459 to 1,437 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,459 | |
| 2020 | 1,437 | -22 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Sparta NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bangor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 81420 |
| 17 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020052 |
| 1 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020029 |
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 40819 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018035 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42418 |
| 8 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 110820 |
| 15 November 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bangor: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Barclay Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Klos Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pierce Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bangor in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Hail | Bangor | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bangor | $100,000 | Public reported tree fallen upon house in Bangor. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bangor | $50,000 | Public reported baseball sized hail near Bangor. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bangor | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bangor | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bangor | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported ping pong sized hail near Bangor. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Bangor | $20,000 | Heavy rains caused Dutch Creek to quickly go out of its banks and take out a pedestrian bridge in Veterans Memorial Park and a snowmobile bridge. The pedestrian bridge was destroyed while the snowmobile bridge was designed to be moveable and only sustained minor damage. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bangor | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of State Highways 162 and 16 north of Bangor. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bangor | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Bangor | - | Heavy rain caused a mudslide that blocked both lanes of traffic on State Highway 162 south of Bangor. |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Bangor | - | A short lived funnel cloud was observed by people in the Town of Burns. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bangor | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Bangor | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burns | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Rockland | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| West Salem | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Middle Ridge | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Barre Mills | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Joseph | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Newberg Corners | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Mindoro | 10.6 miles | 13 |
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 Bangor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2042744 | The 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 1561148. 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.









