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Chili, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 54420. The Survey maps it on the Spencer South quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

Chili within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Chili fell from 226 to 205 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
2010226
2020205-21 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chili in 2019, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1903301
12 January 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201902

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chili in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 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 1998Flash FloodChili$50,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindChili$18,000no account filed
July 2022Flash FloodChili$8,000Runoff from heavy rains pushed some creeks out of their banks. Water from the South Branch O'Neill Creek went over County Highway Y between Chili and U.S. Highway 10. Water from the North Fork Eau Claire River went over County Highway X west of Thorp, and County Highway H northwest of Chili was covered by standing water.
April 2026HailChili-An amateur radio group reported quarter sized hail 2 miles north-northwest of Chili.
April 2026HailChili-The public reported golf ball sized in Chili.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindChili-A wind gust of 60 miles per hour was reported in Veefkind.
July 2009Funnel CloudChili-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Lynn4.2 miles11
Veefkind4.6 miles11
Granton6.1 miles11
Spokeville7.2 miles11
Kurth (historical)8.3 miles11
Nevins9.0 miles12
Loyal10.6 miles11
Sherwood11.0 miles12

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 ChiliAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970862The 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 1563021. 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.