Coon Valley, Wisconsin
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Coon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54623. It lies near Rundahl Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Coon Valley quadrangle. 758 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
On record in Coon Valley
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 1 record
Nils Skumsrud Houselisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresCoon Valley fell from 765 to 758 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 | 765 | |
| 2020 | 758 | -7 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 11 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.
- 1926 USGS Stoddard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Stoddard quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Coon Valley quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,315 words on this townshipHistory of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Coon Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This village was laid out and regularly platted in 1859, by Henry Johnson, and is situated on section 7. It was named Coon Valley, as it is located in the valley of Coon river. The river at this point furnishes an abundant water power. The first house was built by Henry Johnson. There are no school or church buildings within the village proper, but just at the edge of the place, the district school building is located.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884.
H. Hanson, the leading merchant of the village of Coon Valley, was born in Norway in 1840, and emigrated to the United States in 1S50. He first settled at La Crosse, Wis., where he remained until twenty-two years of age. He then came to the town of Coon and located in a settlement that two years later was laid out and platted and named Coon Valley. Mr. Hanson purchased a house and lot in the new village and for a number of years worked for Henry Johnson in the saw-mill and general store. In 1872 he opened a general store at Coon Valley postoffice, where he carries a stock valued at about $3,500, and enjoys a large and paying trade. Mr. Hanson was the third appointed postmaster of Coon Valley and has held the position continuously for fourteen years. He was married in 1877 to Alma Olson. They are the parents of three children - Henry Alfred, William Howard and Christian Gerhard.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884.
L. P. Swan, senior member of the firm of Swan, Naperud & Co., was born in Sweden in July 8, 1845. He was induced to come to the United States in 1869, and first located at Lansing, Iowa. He remained in that place for two years and then removed to La Crosse, Wis., where he was a resident for four years. In 1875 he came to the town of Coon and soon after purchased a third interest in the flouring and saw mill and a general store at Coon Valley. The firm is the largest in the village and carry on an extensive business. Mr. Swan was united inmariage, in 1876, to LinaNeperud, and two children have been born to them - Anna and Amanda.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Coon Town - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Coon Valley between 2018 and 2020, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018-17 |
| 26 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018-15 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018-10 |
| 13 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 02020-1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Coon Valley: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coon Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Zogg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coon Valley in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Hail | Coon Valley | $18,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Coon Valley | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaseburg | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Esofea | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Newton | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Westby | 9.0 miles | 14 | |
| Springville | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Bud | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Newry | 10.4 miles | 14 |
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 Coon Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3300872 | 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 1563376. 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.








