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.
Population over time
2 figuresDellwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 563 | |
| 2020 | 579 | +16 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Adams quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Dellwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
318 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 96 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 61 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 56 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 28 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PANCAKE FIRE |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dellwood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Dellwood | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dellwood | $15,000 | Local broadcast media reported a big pine tree blown over along with some boats 4 miles south-southeast of Dellwood. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Dellwood | $5,000 | Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused some flash flooding to occur across the southern portions of Adams County. Roads were washed out near Plainville. |
| August 2020 | Flood | Dellwood | $4,000 | Runoff 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dellwood | $4,000 | Several six inch diameter trees were blown down near Castle Rock Park. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dellwood | $1,000 | Trees down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dellwood | - | A park service employee estimated a sixty miles per hour wind gust at Castle Rock County Park. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Dellwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dellwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkdale | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Strongs Prairie | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Friendship | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Adams | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Roche a Cri (historical) | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Quincy (historical) | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Cottonville | 8.7 miles | 7 | |
| Monroe Center | 8.8 miles | 8 |
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 Dellwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5254228 | 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 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.





