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Catawba, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Catawba Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54515. The Survey maps it on the Kennan quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.

Catawba within Price County

Population over time

2 figures

Catawba grew from 110 to 141 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
2010110
2020141+31 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Catawba between 1992 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
6 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyFIREWORKS
6 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOONSHINE ALLEY
2 June 2002Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Catawba: 11 occurrences, 7 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Beaver Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elm Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elm Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hobbles Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lake Sixteen Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Liberty Lane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Makovsky Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Many Roads Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Moonshine Alley Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Moonshine Alley Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catawba in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2024Flash FloodCatawba$75,000The heavy rainfall led to washouts along Highway 111 north of the Needle Creek bridge to US Highway 8 leading to the road to be closed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCatawba$60,000A few trees were down across a road. Additionally, widespread tree and powerline damage was reported across the county from the storms.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCatawba-An eight inch diameter tree was knocked down onto a power line approximately 5 miles north of Catawba on County Road J.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCatawba-A few trees were knocked down along Highway 8 in Catawba.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCatawba-Trees were uprooted and snapped, and a house's siding was peeled.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCatawba-Power lines and trees were blown down.
April 2002Tornado (F0)Catawba-A tornado touched down briefly in an isolated wooded area.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCatawba-Trees were blown down on U.S. Highway 8.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCatawba-A machine shed was blown off its foundation. There was also roof and siding damage, and a round bale feeder was thrown 225 feet. Siding was blown off a mobile home. The wind speed is estimated.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCatawba-Large trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2018HailCatawba-no account filed
October 2018HailCatawba-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudCatawba-no account filed
June 2009HailCatawba-no account filed
June 2007HailCatawba-no account filed
April 2002HailCatawba-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCatawba-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCatawba-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCatawba-no account filed
May 1998HailCatawba-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Catawba-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCatawba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Kennan3.1 miles8
Pennington7.3 miles10
Cranberry Lake12.0 miles10
Prentice12.9 miles10
Phillips13.0 miles10
Worcester13.4 miles10
Ogema13.8 miles9
Lugerville16.5 miles10

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 CatawbaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2139915The 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 1562803. 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.