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.
Population over time
2 figuresCamp 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 601 | |
| 2020 | 647 | +46 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1919 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Camp Douglas quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
98 since 1992Regional 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 use | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 52 MILEMARKER |
| 9 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2001 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | VOLK FIRE |
| 25 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FLYING WHEELS #2 |
| 2 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BLACK HIGHWAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Douglas | $175,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Douglas | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Douglas | $60,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Camp Douglas | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Douglas | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Douglas | $1,500 | no account filed |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Camp 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Douglas | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Mill | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Hustler | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Lone Rock | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| New Lisbon | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cutler | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cloverdale | 8.6 miles | 14 | |
| Kelly | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Elroy | 12.5 miles | 11 |
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 Douglas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2629196 | 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 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.








