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.
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
David W. and Jane Curtis Houselisted 2009
Fort Atkinson Clublisted 2017
Fort Atkinson Water Towerlisted 2005
Hoard's Dairyman Farmlisted 1978
Arthur R. Hoard Houselisted 1982
Main Street Historic Districtlisted 1984
Eli May Houselisted 1972
Merchants Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1986- Helmut Ajango Houselisted 2022
- Jones Dairy Farmlisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,368 | |
| 2020 | 12,579 | +211 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Fort Atkinson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Fort Atkinson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2018Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 244 |
| 15 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 96 |
| 2 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 132 |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 144 |
| 22 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 107 |
| 26 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 56 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 72 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poyers Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Schuth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Strasburg Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fort Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Poyers Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Strasburg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Atkinson | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackhawk Island | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Cold Spring | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lake Koshkonong | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| North Shore | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Vinnie Ha Ha | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Koshkonong Mounds | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Jefferson | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Koshkonong Manor | 6.8 miles | 18 |
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 Atkinson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1570350 | The 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.









