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Friendship, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Adams town. It lies in ZIP code area 53934. It stands on Friendship Mound. The Survey maps it on the Adams quadrangle. 648 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Friendship within Adams County

On record in Friendship

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Friendship fell from 725 to 648 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
2010725
2020648-77 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism23
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Fireworks5
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Natural2

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 September 2020Natural6.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUSTY
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Friendship: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Adams Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2000HailFriendship$70,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindFriendship$55,000no account filed
May 2025HailFriendship$30,000Law enforcement reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile southeast of Friendship.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFriendship$20,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindFriendship$12,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindFriendship$8,000Trees and power lines were blown down four miles north of Friendship. One of these trees fell on a vehicle on State Highway 21 at the entrance of Roche-A-Cri State Park.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFriendship$8,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFriendship$5,000Numerous trees were blown down northeast of Friendship in the vicinity of Roche-a-Cri State Park.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFriendship$5,000Several trees and large branches were blown down in Friendship.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindFriendship$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailFriendship$3,000Several car windshields were cracked by the hail.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFriendship$3,000Downed trees were blocking a road just south of Friendship. Pea size hail was also reported.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFriendship$2,000Trees were blown down north of Friendship.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFriendship$2,000Trees were reported down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFriendship$1,500no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFriendship$1,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindFriendship$750A tree was blown down near the intersection of Czech Avenue and 10th Avenue.
June 2022Funnel CloudFriendship-A funnel cloud was sighted near Adams.
June 2008HailFriendship-Nickel size hail was reported just west of Adams/Friendship.
September 1998HailFriendship-no account filed
September 1994Thunderstorm WindFriendship-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Adams1.0 miles10
Adams Center (historical)3.9 miles10
Fordham (historical)4.2 miles11
Arkdale5.4 miles8
Roche a Cri (historical)5.8 miles7
Cottonville6.1 miles7
Dellwood6.5 miles10
Brookside7.6 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 FriendshipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013478The 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 1565329. 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.