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Elk Mound, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elk Mound Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54739. It stands on Elk Mound. The Survey maps it on the Elk Creek Lake quadrangle. 985 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Elk Mound within Dunn County

Population over time

2 figures

Elk Mound grew from 878 to 985 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
2010878
2020985+107 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Elk Mound between 2004 and 2020, burning about 404 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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
10 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19044
31 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19028
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20022
14 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2009Fireworks390 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUDDY CREEK WILDLIFE AREA
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19014
28 April 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Elk Mound: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Sherman QuarryStoneUnknown
Elk Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elk Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elk Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elk Creek Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elk Creek Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elk Mound Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elk Mound Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fry Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lightfoot Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dunn County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk Mound in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindElk Mound2 hurtMobile home blown 50 feet, injuring 2. Estimated windspeed.
September 2019Tornado (EF0)Elk Mound$250,000A NWS Storm Survey determined a tornado began on the south side of Elk Mound, near the intersection of I-94, and South Holly Road. The tornado moved northeast, crossing I-94, and continued into Chippewa County as it crossed 10th Street, south of 560th Avenue. Most of the damage was EF0 in Dunn County where a barn lost its roof, and trees were uprooted or blown down. The path length in Dunn County was 2.3 miles long, with a maximum width of 250 yards.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindElk Mound$15,000A 14 foot barn wall was blown off with roof damage to the adjacent house. There were also numerous trees, up to 2.5 feet in diameter, that were blown down in Elk Mound.
May 2025HailElk Mound-Quarter sized hail report via MPING near Elk Mound.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindElk Mound-A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Village of Elk Mound, and Elk Mound Township.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindElk Mound-A large tree was blown down in Elk Mound.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindElk Mound-Numerous trees were blown down in Elk Mound.
May 2016Heavy RainElk Mound-A 3.20 inch rainfall report was measured by the local emergency manager.
May 2016Flash FloodElk Mound-Two bands of torrential rainfall, with rainfall rates as high as 2 inches per hour, moved across far eastern Dunn county near Elk Mound. The rainfall caused several roads to flood, especially along Highway 29 west of town. Some roads were closed due to the flood waters in the town of Elk Mound.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindElk Mound-A tree was blown down southeast of Elk Mound.
June 2005HailElk Mound-Dime sized hail fell for 5 minutes along County Road EE.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindElk Mound-Estimated windspeed...
July 1997Thunderstorm WindElk Mound-Large branches down.
April 2025HailElk Mound-no account filed
May 2018HailElk Mound-no account filed
June 2015HailElk Mound-no account filed
April 2011HailElk Mound-no account filed
April 2011HailElk Mound-no account filed
April 2011HailElk Mound-no account filed
April 2011HailElk Mound-no account filed
May 2008HailElk Mound-no account filed
July 2007HailElk Mound-no account filed
July 2006HailElk Mound-no account filed
July 2004HailElk Mound-no account filed
July 2002HailElk Mound-no account filed
June 2001HailElk Mound-no account filed
September 2000HailElk Mound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunn 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
Falls City6.7 miles12
Rusk8.0 miles12
Caryville8.4 miles13
Colfax8.8 miles13
Rock Falls10.7 miles12
Meridean10.7 miles12
Cedar Falls11.1 miles12
Tainter Lake11.5 miles12

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 Elk MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2487251The 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 1564526. 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.