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Bay City, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Isabelle town. It lies in ZIP code area 54723. It stands on Isabelle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bay City quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Bay City within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Bay City fell from 500 to 441 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
2010500
2020441-59 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bay City between 2012 and 2020, burning about 27 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/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
23 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2018Recreation and ceremony5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Bay City: 7 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Bay City Sand Co Bay City MineSilicaProducer
Red Wing Sewer Pipe Clay Pit No 1ClayPast Producer
Bay City Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bridge Road Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Creek Road Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Esdaile Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hager City Dolomite Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Richardson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bridge Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Funk Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay City in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBay City$1,000A few trees and power lines were blown down in Bay City.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBay City-A large tree was blown down across Highway 35, while another was blocking the highway east of town.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBay City-A large tree was blown down near Bay City.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBay City-A large tree was downed onto a road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBay City-Several trees were downed.
July 2000HailBay City-Quarter inch hail covered the ground.
June 1996HailBay City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Esdaile2.5 miles16
Oakridge2.9 miles16
Hager City4.8 miles15
Pucketville4.8 miles15
Warrentown4.9 miles15
North Red Wing5.2 miles15
Salem5.6 miles15
Trenton6.2 miles15

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 Bay CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q812066The 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 1561318. 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.