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Friesland, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Randolph town. It lies in ZIP code area 53935. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Friesland within Columbia County

Population over time

2 figures

Friesland fell from 356 to 320 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
2010356
2020320-36 (-10%)

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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Friesland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use31
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
26 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCO M
10 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRAINY NIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 Friesland: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Cupery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friesland in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFriesland$35,000The roof and walls of barn collapsed. Some damage to the roof and walls of a home.
June 2024Flash FloodFriesland$20,000Street and road flooding in portions of the county including in Pardeeville, Lodi, and water flowing over County Highway P near Cambria. Lowland flooding throughout the area.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFriesland$20,000Minor house damage, a car blown into the ditch, and multiple large trees snapped at the trunk or uprooted. A wind turbine measured a 106 mph wind gust.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFriesland$5,000Multiple large tree limbs down across Randolph.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindFriesland$3,000Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled trees and power-lines, and ripped off the roof of a tin shed.
April 2014HailFriesland-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudFriesland-no account filed
May 2006HailFriesland-no account filed
July 2006HailFriesland-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindFriesland-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindFriesland-no account filed
June 2002HailFriesland-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindFriesland-no account filed
September 1998HailFriesland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
East Friesland1.4 miles10
Cambria3.8 miles10
Ingle4.1 miles10
Randolph4.7 miles10
Belle Fountain10.5 miles12
Marcellon10.6 miles12
Englewood11.0 miles9
Doylestown11.9 miles9

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 FrieslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673754The 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 1565337. 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.