Combined Locks, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Combined Locks Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54113. It stands on Garners Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kaukauna quadrangle. 3,634 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.
On record in Combined Locks
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Little Chute Locks and Canal Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.8 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresCombined Locks grew from 3,328 to 3,634 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 | 3,328 | |
| 2020 | 3,634 | +306 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Appleton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Kaukauna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Kaukauna quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Combined Locks between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 338 |
| 15 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20CL029 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | AP00199 |
| 30 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 36 |
| 25 July 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 18BU001 |
| 19 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 200931 |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 235 |
| 1 July 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 28 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Combined Locks: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Perlite Co. | Perlite | Plant | ||
| Kaukauna Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Monnot Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| R Evers Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Van Handel Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Combined Locks in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Lightning | Combined Locks | $10,000 | Lightning struck the roof of a home causing a fire that spread to the attic. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze in about 15 minutes. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Combined Locks | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a house near the intersection of County Highway N and Kennedy Avenue. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Combined Locks | - | Nickel size hail fell near Appleton. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Combined Locks | - | A trained weather spotter reported 1.00 inch diameter hail at the intersection of Highway 441 and East College Avenue. |
| July 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Combined Locks | - | A spotter observed a funnel cloud and rotating wall cloud. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Chute | 1.0 miles | 9 | |
| Kimberly | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Kaukauna | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Whispering Pines | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Apple Creek | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Appleton | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Bell Heights | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Mackville | 7.6 miles | 10 |
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 Combined Locks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3300992 | 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 1563292. 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.




