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Elroy, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elroy City. It lies in ZIP code area 53929. It lies near Mack Valley. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 1,356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Elroy within Juneau County

Population over time

2 figures

Elroy fell from 1,442 to 1,356 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
20101,442
20201,356-86 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Elroy between 2009 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
2 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900012
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005
12 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRIDGE
30 March 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900007
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800014

Every fire recorded in Juneau 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 Elroy: 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
Elroy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elroy in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2008Flash FloodElroy$275,000Mudslides were reported along Highway 80. A trailer park was evacuated.
June 2008Flash FloodElroy$110,000Flash flooding hit parts of southern Juneau County hard with water over several roads and some mudslides. Many area creeks rose very rapidly as well.
August 2006HailElroy$30,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindElroy$23,000no account filed
July 1997HailElroy$15,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindElroy$14,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindElroy$12,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindElroy$10,000Several large trees and branches were blown down in Elroy. Some of these branches landed on a truck.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindElroy$10,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindElroy$7,000no account filed
May 2012LightningElroy$5,000Lightning struck and damaged a county communications tower. The lightning strike blew out the surge protectors damaging the power supply.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindElroy$4,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Elroy.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindElroy$3,000Several trees were blown down north of Elroy.
September 2000HailElroy$1,000no account filed
May 2025HailElroy-Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail in Elroy.
May 2017HailElroy-no account filed
May 2011HailElroy-no account filed
July 2008HailElroy-no account filed
April 2004HailElroy-no account filed
June 2001HailElroy-no account filed
July 1997HailElroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Union Center3.8 miles11
Wonewoc6.6 miles11
Lindina6.8 miles12
Hustler9.6 miles13
Mauston11.0 miles12
New Lisbon11.1 miles12
Orange Mill11.3 miles12
Camp Douglas12.5 miles13

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 ElroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569969The 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 1564593. 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.