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Camp Douglas, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orange town. It lies in ZIP code area 54618. It lies near Castle Rock. The Survey maps it on the Camp Douglas quadrangle. 647 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Camp Douglas within Juneau County

Population over time

2 figures

Camp Douglas grew from 601 to 647 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
2010601
2020647+46 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Camp Douglas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 use38
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources52 MILEMARKER
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVOLK FIRE
25 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLYING WHEELS #2
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK HIGHWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Douglas in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCamp Douglas$175,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCamp Douglas$75,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCamp Douglas$60,000no account filed
June 2000HailCamp Douglas$30,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCamp Douglas$20,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCamp Douglas$1,500no account filed
December 2015Heavy RainCamp Douglas-A total of 4.30 inches of rain fell. Other heavy rain around the county included 4.21 inches at Necedah and 3.20 inches at Mauston.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCamp Douglas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Orange Mill2.5 miles12
Hustler2.9 miles13
Lone Rock3.4 miles12
New Lisbon6.4 miles12
Cutler7.4 miles14
Cloverdale8.6 miles14
Kelly9.6 miles12
Elroy12.5 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 Camp DouglasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2629196The 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 1562599. 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.

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.