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.
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
Adams County Courthouselisted 1982
Gunning-Purves Buildinglisted 2015
Population over time
2 figuresFriendship 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 725 | |
| 2020 | 648 | -77 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Adams quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Adams quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
214 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Natural | 6.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DUSTY |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Co. Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Friendship | $70,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $55,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Friendship | $30,000 | Law enforcement reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile southeast of Friendship. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $12,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $8,000 | Trees 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $5,000 | Numerous trees were blown down northeast of Friendship in the vicinity of Roche-a-Cri State Park. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $5,000 | Several trees and large branches were blown down in Friendship. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Friendship | $3,000 | Several car windshields were cracked by the hail. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $3,000 | Downed trees were blocking a road just south of Friendship. Pea size hail was also reported. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $2,000 | Trees were blown down north of Friendship. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $2,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $1,500 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $750 | A tree was blown down near the intersection of Czech Avenue and 10th Avenue. |
| June 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Friendship | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near Adams. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Friendship | - | Nickel size hail was reported just west of Adams/Friendship. |
| September 1998 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 1.0 miles | 10 | |
| Adams Center (historical) | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Fordham (historical) | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Arkdale | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Roche a Cri (historical) | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Cottonville | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Dellwood | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Brookside | 7.6 miles | 10 |
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 Friendship | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1013478 | 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 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.





