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Bowler, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bowler Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54416. It stands on Strassburg Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowler quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.

Bowler within Shawano County

Population over time

2 figures

Bowler grew from 302 to 320 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
2010302
2020320+18 (+6%)

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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Bowler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use35
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2011Naturalunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyPOW-WOW
31 July 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bowler: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Boldig Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bowler Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cemetery Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Small Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Tilleda Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Tilleda Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Wohler Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Wohler Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowler in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBowler$35,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees at numerous locations across western Shawano County. The most concentrated damage was about 3 miles northwest of Bowler where estimated wind gusts of 85 to 95 mph from a microburst caused significant damage. A stand of pine trees 200 yards wide by 400 yards long was almost completely flattened with several trees snapped about 10 to 15 feet above the ground. A home and work shed were damaged by fallen trees and a truck was crushed. About a mile to the east a barn and outbuilding were flattened by the wind.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree onto a car northeast of Bowler. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds flattened numerous trees and snapped trunks northeast of Bowler. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous trees and snapped trunks northeast of Bowler. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous trees northeast of Bowler. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees, which fell on a house near Bowler. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Bowler-A brief tornado formed at 5:46 pm CDT within the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in western Shawano County and continued northeast before dissipating at 5:47 pm CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 0.5836 miles long, with a width of 50 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 95 mph.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and power line damage throughout Shawano County. One tree hit a building and another landed on a car.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorms downed about 30 trees near the intersection of County Road D and County Road J.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds snapped a tree limb in Bowler.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBowler-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Bowler.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBowler-Straight-line thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines. One large tree landed across CR-J.
June 2008HailBowler-no account filed
June 2008HailBowler-no account filed
June 2007HailBowler-no account filed
August 1996LightningBowler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Almon3.0 miles7
Regina3.0 miles7
Five Corners4.8 miles7
Tilleda5.0 miles7
Shepley6.4 miles7
Morgan8.5 miles7
Paac Ciinak8.9 miles7
Whitcomb9.1 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 BowlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2062699The 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 1562100. 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.