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Embarrass, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Embarrass Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54929. The Survey maps it on the Embarrass quadrangle. 353 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Embarrass within Waupaca County

Population over time

2 figures

Embarrass fell from 404 to 353 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
2010404
2020353-51 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

71 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Embarrass between 1993 and 2019, burning about 88 acres in total. None 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
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
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPALMER RD
23 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7TH ST FIRE
21 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKING BARREL
2 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEPSON
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources819181
16 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Embarrass: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Adams Beach Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Apple Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Apple Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deger Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Draheim PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Embarrass Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kriewaldt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mantin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marquardt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pella Opening Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Embarrass in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2026Flash FloodEmbarrass-Rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches in a short time caused several streets to close in northern Waupaca County due to flash flooding. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEmbarrass-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a few trees in Embarrass.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEmbarrass-Thunderstorm winds downed trees around Embarrass. Time of event is estimated. Reports of downed trees were received by law enforcement between 7:06 PM and 7:22 PM CST.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEmbarrass-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Clintonville4.3 miles8
Buckbee6.9 miles8
Bear Creek Corners9.5 miles7
Marion9.7 miles8
Nicholson10.9 miles8
Marble (historical)11.2 miles8
Nowell (historical)13.1 miles7
Symco14.8 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 EmbarrassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301032The 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 1564607. 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.