Cecil, Wisconsin
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54111. It stands on Pickerel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cecil quadrangle. 529 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCecil fell from 570 to 529 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 | 570 | |
| 2020 | 529 | -41 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gillett quadrangle1:62500
- 1974 USGS Cecil quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
95 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Cecil between 1993 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Menominee Tribe | SE BASS #2 |
| 5 September 1998 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 82218 |
| 7 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Menominee Tribe | CHICK-A-WATHA |
| 4 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Menominee Tribe | ROMAN |
| 4 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cecil: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gehm Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Limekiln Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Zimmerman Limekiln Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bahr Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Bonduel Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Druckery Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lily Pond Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lodge Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oakcrest Drive Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pensaukee Lakes Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cecil in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 | Hail | Cecil | - | Hail slightly larger than quarter size (1.1 inches) fell in Cecil. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Cecil | - | Quarter size hail fell in Cecil. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecil | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in the town of Cecil. |
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.
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 Cecil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2715592 | 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 1562830. 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.



