Boyd, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Boyd Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54726. The Survey maps it on the Boyd quadrangle. 605 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBoyd grew from 552 to 605 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 552 | |
| 2020 | 605 | +53 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Cadott quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Cadott NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Boyd quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Boyd between 2003 and 2020, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 4119 |
| 30 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 186 |
| 8 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2118 |
| 5 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 8020 |
| 3 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2518 |
| 11 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2719 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1818 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Boyd: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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.
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyd in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyd | $50,000 | Two barns had roof damage, plus several large trees were blown down northwest of Boyd, Wisconsin. |
| September 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Boyd | $10,000 | Barn destroyed and machine shed damaged. Trees were also damaged. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyd | - | Large trees and branches were downed. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF2) | Boyd | - | This tornado first caused damage to groves of trees southwest of Stanley, then affected a couple farmsteads. It intensified significantly as it approached Stanley, demolishing an outbuilding and then two outbuildings with a construction business. An historic train depot had a portion of its roof removed. A high tension power line was blown down. About six homes had their roofs removed, and in the northeast edge of Stanley, a roof and outer walls were removed from a portion of a house. The tornado continued into northwestern Clark County where it damaged more trees and outbuildings (see entry from NWS La Crosse). |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyd | - | Several trees and power lines down. Some roads blocked. Windspeed estimated. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Boyd | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyd | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edson | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Stanley | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Maple Hill | 5.2 miles | 6 | |
| Colburn | 6.1 miles | 6 | |
| Cadott | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Brownville | 7.7 miles | 6 | |
| Drywood | 9.7 miles | 6 | |
| Crescent | 10.0 miles | 6 |
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 Boyd | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2048064 | The 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 1562108. 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.






