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Danbury, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Swiss town. It lies in ZIP code area 54830. It stands on Yellow River. The Survey maps it on the Danbury East quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Danbury within Burnett County

Population over time

2 figures

Danbury fell from 172 to 165 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
2010172
2020165-7 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Danbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,503 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use18
Fireworks14
Recreation and ceremony12
Other causes6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJUST SOUTH OF DANBURY
15 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTOWER
10 September 2011Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE IN THE BEDROOM
9 August 2014Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY'S ANNIVERSARY
8 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2 AM ACCIDENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Danbury: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
C J Moses PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Danbury Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Florence Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fremsted Lake Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fremsted Lake Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Oakland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
St Croix River State Forest PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
William Armstrong PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Burnett County

Storms near this place

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danbury in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindDanbury$75,000Photos and video were received of large trees downed on several properties and on the roadway on Ham Lake Road in Danbury. One house also had a tree fall into the side of the house. Two properties along this road also had docks on Ham Lake that were damaged and flipped.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDanbury$10,000There was shingle damage to a roof on a two-story home along Highway 7. Numerous trees were blown down in the area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDanbury$1,000Power lines were blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Multiple oak, pine and popple trees with limbs of four to sixteen inches in diameter snapped from trees. The majority of the trees were in good health, but a few had been damaged by last winter's snow and were rotted in spots.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDanbury-A few small trees were down along with a few larger trees that were blocking roads in the area.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Four large trees were down across a road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDanbury-A few trees were downed near the intersection of French Road and Glendenning Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindDanbury-A large tree was blown down on County Road F.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDanbury-A tree that was blown down on County Road T blocked a lane of traffic between Oakland and Jackson townships.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Five mature 12 inch diameter oak and pine trees were broken or uprooted.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Most trees in the area were blown down; several fell on cars and structures. Mobile homes were damaged.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDanbury-This was the corridor of an intense down-burst wind-damage found just west of Danbury. The corridor was 1/4 mile wide and 500 yards long, within which every single tree was snapped off or flattened.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDanbury-This was a corridor of intense down-burst wind damage found just west of Danbury. Wind speeds were estimated well in excess of 100 mph.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Several large trees were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Numerous trees were blown down and umerous power poles were snapped in half. The hardest hit area was the west and southwest sides of Yellow Lake. Numerous locations were without power until the afternoon of the following day.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Trees were blown down in the Blaine Township.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Numerous trees were blown down on Highway 35 from Danbury to the St. Croix River. Highway 77 east of Danbury was impassable due to numerous trees on the road. Trees and power lines were blown down in Hertel.
June 2006LightningDanbury-Lightning struck an instrument transformer, causing a two-hour power outage at Spooner, Webb lake, Danbury, Oakland, Yellow Lake, and Devil's Lake.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDanbury-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2022HailDanbury-no account filed
September 2014HailDanbury-no account filed
April 2004HailDanbury-no account filed
April 2004HailDanbury-no account filed
May 2001HailDanbury-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDanbury-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindDanbury-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindDanbury-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindDanbury-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindDanbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burnett 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
Oakland4.8 miles14
Yellow Lake4.9 miles14
Riverside8.1 miles8
Webster8.9 miles14
Woodland Corner11.8 miles8
Webb Lake12.6 miles8
Siren15.2 miles14
Hertel17.2 miles14

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 DanburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5214950The 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 1563691. 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.