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Black Creek, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Black Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 54106. The Survey maps it on the Black Creek quadrangle. 1,357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Black Creek within Outagamie County

On record in Black Creek

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

Population over time

2 figures

Black Creek grew from 1,316 to 1,357 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
20101,316
20201,357+41 (+3%)

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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Black Creek between 1999 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Natural1
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
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources118
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources49
8 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH FIRE
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources47
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources48
7 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHERMAN FIRE
7 May 2018Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPIG FIRE
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Black Creek: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Murphy Const. Co. Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
W Pingel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jenkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nichols QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Quarry No 2 Van SchyndelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Creek in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2010Flash FloodBlack Creek$150,000Two inches of rain fell in an hour flooding 4 blocks of downtown Black Creek and 30 basements. State Highway 54 had to be closed due to 4 feet of standing water on the road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Black Creek.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Black Creek$1,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 66 mph near Seymour on a home weather station.
July 2024HailBlack Creek-Nickel size hail near Black Creek.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek-Thunderstorm winds snapped seven power poles north of Black Creek. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek-Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees in Black Creek.
June 2016HailBlack Creek-Nickel size hail fell southeast of Black Creek as thunderstorms passed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Black Creek area.
August 2015Heavy RainBlack Creek-Heavy rainfall caused street flooding on Highway 47 in Black Creek. Water was about six inches deep.
May 2011HailBlack Creek-Quarter size hail fell at Black Creek.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek-Strong thunderstorm winds downed several trees and branches.
August 2002HailBlack Creek-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindBlack Creek-no account filed
September 1998HailBlack Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Binghamton3.7 miles8
Center Valley5.2 miles8
Twelve Corners5.3 miles8
Five Corners5.9 miles8
Nichols5.9 miles9
Seymour6.9 miles9
Shiocton7.2 miles8
Cicero7.4 miles9

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 Black CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1998904The 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 1561847. 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.