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Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Fort Atkinson City. It lies in ZIP code area 53538. It stands on Bark River. The Survey maps it on the Fort Atkinson quadrangle. 12,579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Fort Atkinson within Jefferson County

On record in Fort Atkinson

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 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Atkinson grew from 12,368 to 12,579 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
201012,368
202012,579+211 (+2%)

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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fort Atkinson between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources244
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources96
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources144
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107
26 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources56
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources72

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fort Atkinson: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Poyers QuarryStoneUnknown
Schuth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Strasburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fort QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Poyers PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Strasburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Atkinson in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Atkinson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Blackhawk Island3.6 miles18
Cold Spring4.2 miles18
Lake Koshkonong4.6 miles18
North Shore4.6 miles18
Vinnie Ha Ha4.9 miles18
Koshkonong Mounds5.5 miles19
Jefferson5.5 miles15
Koshkonong Manor6.8 miles18

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 Fort AtkinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570350The 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 1565151. 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.