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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.

Boyd within Chippewa County

Population over time

2 figures

Boyd 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.

YearPeople Change
2010552
2020605+53 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

14 since 2003

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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
30 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4119
30 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources186
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2118
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8020
3 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2518
11 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2719
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1818

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Geist PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vaora PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBoyd$50,000Two barns had roof damage, plus several large trees were blown down northwest of Boyd, Wisconsin.
September 1995Tornado (F0)Boyd$10,000Barn destroyed and machine shed damaged. Trees were also damaged.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Large trees and branches were downed.
December 2021Tornado (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 1999Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Several trees and power lines down. Some roads blocked. Windspeed estimated.
July 2001HailBoyd-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBoyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Edson1.5 miles12
Stanley5.2 miles11
Maple Hill5.2 miles6
Colburn6.1 miles6
Cadott6.1 miles11
Brownville7.7 miles6
Drywood9.7 miles6
Crescent10.0 miles6

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 BoydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2048064The 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.