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Chilton, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Chilton City. It lies in ZIP code area 53014. The Survey maps it on the Chilton quadrangle. 4,080 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

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Chilton within Calumet County

On record in Chilton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Chilton grew from 3,933 to 4,080 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
20103,933
20204,080+147 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chilton between 2010 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources84
19 October 2010Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Chilton: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Charlesburg QuarryStoneUnknown
Chilton QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Arnold Ortlepp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schneider PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Brant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charlesburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haepner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this place

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chilton in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 25 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindChilton$70,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees at the county fair grounds and damaged several vehicles and campers. The high winds also caused scattered power outages.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindChilton$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindChilton$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindChilton$5,000no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindChilton$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Chilton.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindChilton$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton$1,500no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindChilton$1,000no account filed
July 1994HailChilton$500no account filed
September 2021HailChilton-Half dollar size hail fell at Chilton High School. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021HailChilton-Quarter size hail fell in Chilton. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Chilton.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large branches on Water Street in Chilton.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees branches and power lines in Chilton.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Chilton.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindChilton-A thunderstorm wind gust to 58 mph was measured at Chilton.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds uprooted several 3 to 4 foot diameter trees.
August 2011Funnel CloudChilton-A county sheriff saw two funnel clouds several miles north of Chilton. The funnels were also seen by the public from the village of Potter.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindChilton-A school in Chilton measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindChilton-Trees and power lines were blown down in Chilton.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph tossed a carport 100 feet, dropping it onto a road in Chilton.
July 2008HailChilton-Golf ball size hail fell at Chilton.
July 2008HailChilton-Tennis ball size hail fell at Chilton.
October 2007Funnel CloudChilton-A rotating wall cloud was observed near Chilton, occasionally producing a small funnel cloud.
July 2008HailChilton-no account filed
April 2006HailChilton-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
May 2006HailChilton-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudChilton-no account filed
July 2004HailChilton-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudChilton-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudChilton-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
May 2002HailChilton-no account filed
April 2002HailChilton-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Chilton-no account filed
July 1996HailChilton-no account filed
July 1996HailChilton-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Chilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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
Gravesville1.0 miles9
Hayton2.5 miles9
Brant3.8 miles9
Charlesburg4.1 miles10
Kloten5.5 miles10
Jericho6.8 miles12
New Holstein6.9 miles10
Potter7.2 miles9

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 ChiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1014161The 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 1563022. 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.