Deerfield, Wisconsin
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Deerfield Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53531. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. 2,507 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDeerfield grew from 2,319 to 2,507 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 | 2,319 | |
| 2020 | 2,507 | +188 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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.
- 1890 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1905 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Deerfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
116 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield between 2003 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 239 |
| 1 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deerfield: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L. Kelly Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerfield in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 8 hail, 2 lightning, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2022 | Lightning | Deerfield | $200,000 | Lightning struck a residential home, causing a fire that resulted in significant damage. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Deerfield | $50,000 | A brief EF0 tornado uprooted and snapped trees with many branches down. An industrial building suffered significant roof damage after the garage door was blown in. There was minor roof damage to an additional industrial building. Stainless steel drums and other smaller equipment was damaged from being thrown. Insulation from the damaged roof was deposited along the path of the tornado and into Deerfield Community Park. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Deerfield | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Deerfield | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Deerfield | - | Public report of 1 inch diameter hail in Deerfield. Time confirmed via radar data. |
| November 2022 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Deerfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Deerfield | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| London | 3.3 miles | 23 | |
| Nora | 4.2 miles | 26 | |
| Hoffman Corners | 4.5 miles | 26 | |
| Rockdale | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| Door Creek | 6.2 miles | 26 | |
| Utica | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Cottage Grove | 6.8 miles | 26 |
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 Deerfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2397051 | 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 1563863. 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.








