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Biron, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Biron Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54494. It stands on Mosquito Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wisconsin Rapids North quadrangle. 839 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Biron within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Biron grew from 839 to 839 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
2010839
20208390 (0%)

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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Biron between 1992 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use28
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Fireworks6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1832792
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH SHORE CLEARING FIRE
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWAZEECHA FIRE
28 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIRON DR EAST
26 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2032551
2 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Biron: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wood County OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Biron in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailBiron-Half dollar size hail fell near Biron.
May 2017HailBiron-Penny size hail fell east of Wisconsin Rapids, and winds downed several 1 to 2 inch diameter tree branches throughout town.
July 2016HailBiron-Quarter size hail fell in Biron.
August 2015HailBiron-A thunderstorm dropped ping pong ball size hail as it passed through Biron.
July 2008Funnel CloudBiron-A funnel cloud was reported at the intersection of State Highway 34 and Reddin Road.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Wisconsin Rapids3.4 miles8
Lake Wazeecha3.9 miles8
Rudolph5.2 miles8
Port Edwards6.8 miles8
Eight Corners8.3 miles8
Nekoosa Junction8.3 miles8
Nekoosa10.1 miles8
Vesper10.5 miles8

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 BironAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2664780The 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 1561824. 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.