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Fountain City, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fountain City City. It lies in ZIP code area 54629. It stands on Waumandee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fountain City quadrangle. 806 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Fountain City within Buffalo County

On record in Fountain City

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

Fountain City fell from 859 to 806 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
2010859
2020806-53 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Fountain City between 1992 and 2018, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 July 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWinona District of the Upper Mississippi ComplexWINONA
6 April 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 1996Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Fountain City: 19 occurrences, 14 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 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
Patzner QuarryStoneUnknown
Biesanz Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eyedrop Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeview Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeview Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rivers Breeze Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Semling Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Twin Lakes Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Waumandee Creek Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waumandee Creek Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain City in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 flood, 1 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
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Fountain City$200,000This tornado crossed the Mississippi River from Winona County, Minnesota, damaged trees at Merrick State Park and in the bluffs east of Highway 35. Falling trees at the state park heavily damaged a guest restroom that was designated as a storm shelter, crushing in the roof.
August 1997Flash FloodFountain City$35,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFountain City$30,000Local broadcast media reported trees and power lines down in the Buffalo City and Fountain City areas.
August 1997HailFountain City$25,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain City$10,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindFountain City$8,000no account filed
June 2001HailFountain City$6,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain City$6,000no account filed
September 2000HailFountain City$4,500no account filed
September 2007HailFountain City$3,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindFountain City$2,500no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindFountain City$2,000Trees were blown down near Fountain City. One of the downed trees blocked both lanes of a road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFountain City$2,000Trees were blown down near Fountain City with one of these landing across a road.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFountain City$2,000Trees were blown down near Fountain City.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFountain City$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind gusts were reported along the Mississippi River in southwest parts of Buffalo County.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain City$2,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFountain City$1,000A large tree was blown down northeast of Fountain City.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFountain City$1,000A large tree was blown down onto County Road M near the intersection of County Road YY just east of Fountain City.
May 2002HailFountain City$750no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFountain City$500Trees were blown down in Fountain City.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFountain City$500no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindFountain City$400no account filed
April 2023FloodFountain City-Significant upstream runoff from the combination of rainfall and melting snow led to the Mississippi River at Fountain City rising over Highway 35, closing Main St from April 25th to 26th.
May 2023FloodFountain City-Significant upstream runoff from the combination of heavy rainfall and rapidly melting snow resulted in flooding in Fountain City. Impacts included water rising over Wisconsin Highway 35 in downtown Fountain City, closing Main St towards the end of April. Dry conditions allowed the Mississippi River to slowly recede and drop below minor flood stage at the nearby downstream dam in neighboring Winona, Minnesota on May 7th.
June 2017HailFountain City-Quarter sized hail fell northeast of Fountain City.
June 2017HailFountain City-More quarter sized hail fell northeast of Fountain City.
May 2013HailFountain City-Quarter sized hail fell north of Fountain City.
June 2010FloodFountain City-Street flooding was reported in Fountain City with eight inches of water of Highway 35.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFountain City-A severe thunderstorm downed several trees near Fountain City.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFountain City-A severe thunderstorm downed several trees near Fountain City.
July 2017HailFountain City-no account filed
May 2017HailFountain City-no account filed
May 2013HailFountain City-no account filed
July 2008HailFountain City-no account filed
June 2001HailFountain City-no account filed
September 2000HailFountain City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Czechville4.8 miles14
Bohri (historical)6.2 miles16
Bluff Siding6.8 miles18
Cochrane9.0 miles14
Marshland9.6 miles18
Anchorage (historical)9.6 miles19
Buffalo City10.3 miles14
Glencoe11.4 miles11

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 Fountain CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1439910The 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 1565171. 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.