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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.

Cecil within Shawano County

Population over time

2 figures

Cecil 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.

YearPeople Change
2010570
2020529-41 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

95 since 1993

Regional 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Fireworks7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMenominee TribeSE BASS #2
5 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources82218
7 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreMenominee TribeCHICK-A-WATHA
4 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreMenominee TribeROMAN
4 July 2002Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gehm Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limekiln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zimmerman Limekiln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bahr Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bonduel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Druckery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lily Pond Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lodge Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oakcrest Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pensaukee Lakes Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2023HailCecil-Hail slightly larger than quarter size (1.1 inches) fell in Cecil.
June 2017HailCecil-Quarter size hail fell in Cecil.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindCecil-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in the town of Cecil.

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Bonduel4.8 miles8
Pulcifer5.4 miles6
Slab City6.2 miles8
Advance6.5 miles6
Zachow7.1 miles8
Shawano8.5 miles8
Lunds9.1 miles7
Green Valley9.7 miles6

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 CecilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2715592The 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.