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Gordon, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Gordon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54838. It stands on Eau Claire River. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Gordon within Douglas County

On record in Gordon

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

Gordon fell from 176 to 145 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
2010176
2020145-31 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Gordon between 1993 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Arson/incendiarism7
Fireworks4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1997Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDENALI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gordon: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 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
Mike Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
N Flowage Dr Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
N Flowage Dr Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
N Flowage Dr Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordon in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGordon-A couple of powerlines were down from the storm.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGordon-Numerous white spruce and red pine branches were reported down that were around 2 inches in diameter.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGordon-A photo was received of a downed tree in Gordon.
June 2016HailGordon-The ground was covered with hail.
August 2015HailGordon-The hail fell for about 10 minutes.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGordon-A tree was blown down near Gordon, WI.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGordon-Six 12-inch trees were blown down and blocked Highway 35.
July 2023HailGordon-no account filed
August 2015HailGordon-no account filed
August 2015HailGordon-no account filed
July 2003HailGordon-no account filed
May 2001HailGordon-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGordon-no account filed
July 1997HailGordon-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGordon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Wascott5.1 miles9
Solon Springs7.4 miles10
Sauntry8.9 miles10
Beebe11.3 miles10
Bennett14.2 miles10
Hawthorne18.0 miles8
Hillcrest18.4 miles8
Dairyland19.0 miles8

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 GordonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5584778The 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 1565674. 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.