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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.

Deerfield within Dane County

Population over time

2 figures

Deerfield 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,319
20202,507+188 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

116 since 2003

Regional 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Natural1

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
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources239
1 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
L. Kelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022LightningDeerfield$200,000Lightning struck a residential home, causing a fire that resulted in significant damage.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Deerfield$50,000A 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 2002HailDeerfield$5,000no account filed
July 1998LightningDeerfield$1,000no account filed
April 2026HailDeerfield-Public report of 1 inch diameter hail in Deerfield. Time confirmed via radar data.
November 2022HailDeerfield-no account filed
June 2022HailDeerfield-no account filed
June 2022HailDeerfield-no account filed
June 2010HailDeerfield-no account filed
May 2000HailDeerfield-no account filed
June 1995HailDeerfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Old Deerfield2.1 miles23
London3.3 miles23
Nora4.2 miles26
Hoffman Corners4.5 miles26
Rockdale6.0 miles18
Door Creek6.2 miles26
Utica6.4 miles18
Cottage Grove6.8 miles26

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 DeerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2397051The 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.