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Coloma, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Coloma town. It lies in ZIP code area 54930. The Survey maps it on the Coloma quadrangle. 448 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Coloma within Waushara County

Population over time

2 figures

Coloma fell from 450 to 448 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
2010450
2020448-2 (-0%)

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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Coloma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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 burning43
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCUMBERLAND RD ARSON
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTECKBAUER
12 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 21 & 2ND LN
12 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY21 & 2ND LN CELL TOWER
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMIDIAN FIRE 129
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coloma: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Pockrandt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coloma in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
May 2000HailColoma$26,000,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindColoma$500no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in Coloma. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2022HailColoma-Ping pong size hail fell south of Coloma.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines near Coloma. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2021Tornado (EF1)Coloma-A tornado formed at 3:52 pm CDT in Pleasant Lake in Waushara County and continued north northeast before dissipating at 3:58 pm CDT just west of Coloma. The tornado produced damage to trees (DI 28, DOD 2,3,4) and houses (DI 2, DOD 4). Total path length is estimated to be 3.48 miles long, with a width of 350 yards. Peak wind estimated to be 90 to 95 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees on Highway 21 near Interstate 39 in Coloma.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and several 2 to 3 inch diameter branches near Coloma on County Road FF.
June 2016HailColoma-Golf ball size hail fell southwest of Coloma as thunderstorms passed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees south of Coloma.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and some large branches near Coloma.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the Coloma area. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Coloma.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindColoma-Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Coloma area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindColoma-Thunderstorms winds downed a few trees in the western part of Waushara County.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindColoma-High winds from thunderstorms tore 3 to 4 inch diameter branches from trees between Coloma and Wautoma.
September 2005HailColoma-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindColoma-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindColoma-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindColoma-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Coloma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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
Richford4.6 miles7
Hancock6.8 miles7
Dakota9.3 miles10
Plainfield12.4 miles7
Wautoma12.7 miles6
Silver Lake15.7 miles8
Bannerman15.9 miles14
Wild Rose17.5 miles8

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 ColomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671444The 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 1563272. 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.