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Emerald, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Emerald town. It lies in ZIP code area 54013. The Survey maps it on the Emerald quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Emerald within St. Croix County

Population over time

2 figures

Emerald fell from 161 to 145 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
2010161
2020145-16 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Emerald between 2006 and 2020, burning about 20 acres 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18041
13 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictDUMPTRUCK FIRE
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18033
22 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY DITCH FIRE
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20017
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18017
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18014
23 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Emerald: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Francois QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hutton Creek Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
South Tiffany Creek Sandstone SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
St Croix County OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wilson Rock & Limestone Emerald QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bushy Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carr Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carr Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edward Paulus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Forest Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Croix County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerald in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025HailEmerald-Photo report via Facebook confirmed hail with up to 1.25 inch diameter in Emerald, WI.
August 2009Tornado (EF0)Emerald-A tornado briefly touched down several times as it tracked northward along 250th Street. Vegetation was occasionally torn up and tossed in the air.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Emerald-A tornado briefly touched down just north of Emerald near the intersection of County Road D and 170th Avenue. It ripped metal from a barn and silo and broke a few trees before lifting.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindEmerald-The roof of a barn was blown off near Emerald on Co. Hwy. D south of Hwy. 64. The time was estimated.
August 2009HailEmerald-no account filed
May 2008HailEmerald-no account filed
October 2006HailEmerald-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Croix 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
Forest3.7 miles12
Glenwood City4.9 miles12
Cylon5.7 miles12
Dahl7.2 miles11
Hersey8.7 miles11
Woodville9.1 miles11
Erin Corner9.5 miles12
Jewett9.7 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 EmeraldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5370398The 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 1581627. 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.