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Dellwood, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Strongs Prairie town. It lies in ZIP code area 54613. It stands on Little Roche a Cri Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dellwood quadrangle. 579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Dellwood within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Dellwood grew from 563 to 579 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
2010563
2020579+16 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

318 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Dellwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 273 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use56
Recreation and ceremony28
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3
Natural3

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPANCAKE FIRE
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dellwood in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindDellwood$50,000no account filed
September 1998HailDellwood$20,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDellwood$15,000Local broadcast media reported a big pine tree blown over along with some boats 4 miles south-southeast of Dellwood.
August 2020Flash FloodDellwood$5,000Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused some flash flooding to occur across the southern portions of Adams County. Roads were washed out near Plainville.
August 2020FloodDellwood$4,000Runoff from thunderstorms with heavy caused flooding to occur across the southern portions of Adams County. Water covered roads north of Plainville and south of White Creek.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindDellwood$4,000Several six inch diameter trees were blown down near Castle Rock Park.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDellwood$1,000Trees down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindDellwood-A park service employee estimated a sixty miles per hour wind gust at Castle Rock County Park.
April 2008HailDellwood-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDellwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Arkdale4.0 miles8
Strongs Prairie5.7 miles8
Friendship6.5 miles10
Adams6.7 miles10
Roche a Cri (historical)7.4 miles7
Quincy (historical)7.5 miles10
Cottonville8.7 miles7
Monroe Center8.8 miles8

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 DellwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254228The 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 1563891. 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.

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.