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Eureka, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rushford town. It lies in ZIP code area 54963. The Survey maps it on the Eureka quadrangle. 247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 743 feet above sea level.

Eureka within Winnebago County

On record in Eureka

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Eureka grew from 220 to 247 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
2010220
2020247+27 (+12%)

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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesUMOS CAMP FIRE
8 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHEAT ROCK
14 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use29 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1996Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2019Smoking10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eureka: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chier Industrial PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rabbit Trail PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Eureka. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Eureka. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Eureka. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Eureka.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindEureka-Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous 6 inch diameter tree limbs in Eureka.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindEureka-A couple of trees were blown down near the intersection of Highway 91 and County Road E.
July 2006HailEureka-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEureka-no account filed
September 2002HailEureka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Island Park2.4 miles8
Koro2.5 miles10
Waukau3.9 miles10
Rush Lake5.6 miles10
Omro5.7 miles8
Elo8.5 miles9
Pickett8.7 miles9
Harbor Springs9.2 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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8846423The 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 1564708. 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.