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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.

Combined Locks within Outagamie County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Combined 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,328
20203,634+306 (+9%)

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

27 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined16
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources338
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20CL029
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAP00199
30 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources36
25 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18BU001
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200931
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources235
1 July 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources28

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Midwest Perlite Co.PerlitePlant
Kaukauna Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monnot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
R Evers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Van Handel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008LightningCombined Locks$10,000Lightning 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 2019Thunderstorm WindCombined Locks$5,000Thunderstorm 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 2022HailCombined Locks-Nickel size hail fell near Appleton.
August 2013HailCombined Locks-A trained weather spotter reported 1.00 inch diameter hail at the intersection of Highway 441 and East College Avenue.
July 2008Funnel CloudCombined Locks-A spotter observed a funnel cloud and rotating wall cloud.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Little Chute1.0 miles9
Kimberly1.4 miles9
Kaukauna2.4 miles9
Whispering Pines3.8 miles10
Apple Creek5.2 miles9
Appleton5.4 miles10
Bell Heights5.5 miles10
Mackville7.6 miles10

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 LocksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3300992The 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.