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Ferryville, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Freeman town. It lies in ZIP code area 54628. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ferryville quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Ferryville within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Ferryville grew from 176 to 191 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
2010176
2020191+15 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Ferryville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 267 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE RIDGE CAR FIRE
22 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUCK CREEK
14 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources35 AND HOBBS FIRE
9 April 2019Debris and open burning6.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUCK
7 April 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined49 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ferryville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Forte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kraemer-Hanson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Manning QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pedritti QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferryville in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 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
September 2019Flash FloodFerryville$600,000Runoff from heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur across the southern portion of Crawford County. State Highway 35 was closed between Prairie du Chien and Ferryville because of debris washed down from the nearby bluffs and onto the road. Extensive damage was done to a road construction project just north of Prairie du Chien. U.S. Highway 61 was also closed just north of the Wisconsin River because of debris from the nearby bluffside. Numerous homes in Prairie du Chien sustained damage from the flooding. Because of the large amount of mud that flowed into parts of the city, some residents were unable to leave their neighborhoods until city crews were able to clear the streets. A state of emergency was declared by the mayor. Creeks went out of their banks near Mt. Zion.
June 2024Flash FloodFerryville$25,000Highway 35 was closed due to flooding and mudslides. Trains on the nearby tracks were stopped until the tracks were cleared.
June 2008Flash FloodFerryville$20,000A mud slide occurred on County Road B about 4.5 miles from Highway 27.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindFerryville$15,000no account filed
September 2024HailFerryville$12,000Law enforcement reported golf ball sized hail 3 miles north of Ferryville.
June 2024Flash FloodFerryville$10,000The public reported Rush Creek Rd under four feet of water.
July 2009HailFerryville$10,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFerryville$8,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindFerryville$6,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down along State Highway 35 from De Soto south toward the Rush Creek area.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFerryville$3,500no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFerryville$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Ferryville.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFerryville$2,500no account filed
August 2003HailFerryville$1,200no account filed
September 2016Flash FloodFerryville$1,000A landslide pushed a tree onto State Highway 35 south of Ferryville.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFerryville$500no account filed
June 2013Flash FloodFerryville-Heavy rain caused mud slides to occur closing State Highway 35 in several places north of Prairie du Chien to the Vernon County line just south of De Soto. High water covered State Highway 131 between Wauzeka and Stueben.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindFerryville-no account filed
August 2006HailFerryville-no account filed
May 2004HailFerryville-no account filed
May 2004HailFerryville-no account filed
May 2004HailFerryville-no account filed
May 2004HailFerryville-no account filed
August 2003HailFerryville-no account filed
August 2003HailFerryville-no account filed
April 1996HailFerryville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Reed3.8 miles18
De Soto7.2 miles18
Lynxville7.6 miles19
Fairview8.5 miles10
Rising Sun8.9 miles10
Mount Sterling9.5 miles10
Seneca9.6 miles10
Towerville11.9 miles10

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 FerryvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1883376The 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 1564924. 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.