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Big Falls, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wyoming town. It lies in ZIP code area 54926. It stands on Spaulding Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Falls quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Big Falls within Waupaca County

Population over time

2 figures

Big Falls fell from 61 to 60 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
201061
202060-1 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Big Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
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
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2012Debris and open burning4.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAVERNE & SHIRLEY
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSQUARE BAILER
14 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesALFALFA
30 June 1996Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Falls in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBig Falls$5,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBig Falls-Thunderstorm winds downed trees northwest of Big Falls. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBig Falls-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Big Falls, knocking out power.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBig Falls-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and many branches just north of Big Falls.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBig Falls-Thunderstorm winds downed hundreds of trees in a 100 foot wide swath.
September 1996LightningBig Falls-no account filed
May 1995HailBig Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Granite City (historical)1.8 miles8
Schmidt Corner5.7 miles7
Marion7.7 miles8
Marble (historical)8.5 miles8
Symco9.2 miles8
Iola9.6 miles7
Buckbee9.9 miles8
Northland10.3 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 Big FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3314920The 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 1561719. 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.