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Brillion, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Brillion City. It lies in ZIP code area 54110. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brillion quadrangle. 3,262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Brillion within Calumet County

Population over time

2 figures

Brillion grew from 3,148 to 3,262 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
20103,148
20203,262+114 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Brillion between 1995 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2018Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources32
24 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources17
21 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources99421
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources28
30 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources52

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Brillion: 7 producers, 3 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Brillion QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Soyburn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brillion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brillion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Geiger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grimm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haese PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O Connell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whittman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Winkler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brillion in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2026HailBrillion-Quarter size hail fell in Brillion.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBrillion-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Brillion.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBrillion-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines east of Brillion.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBrillion-Thunderstorm winds knocked out power to the south side of Brillion.
June 2012Heavy RainBrillion-Thunderstorms produced an inch of rain, along with pea size hail, during a 15 minute period.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBrillion-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph downed power lines in Brillion.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindBrillion-Thunderstorm winds caused power outages in Brillion.
October 2006HailBrillion-Extremely heavy rain accompanied the hail.
June 2006HailBrillion-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrillion-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrillion-no account filed
April 2002HailBrillion-no account filed
May 1998HailBrillion-no account filed
August 1998HailBrillion-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBrillion-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBrillion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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
Potter4.3 miles9
Forest Junction4.9 miles9
Hilbert Junction5.5 miles9
Hilbert5.9 miles9
Saint John7.4 miles9
Dundas8.1 miles9
Brant10.3 miles9
Sherwood10.4 miles11

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 BrillionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q917222The 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 1562211. 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.