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Gotham, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Buena Vista town. It lies in ZIP code area 53556. It lies near Onion Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Avoca quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Gotham within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Gotham fell from 191 to 189 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
2010191
2020189-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Gotham between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,882 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 burning37
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Natural2
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use36 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAY/133 FIRE
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRINGELSTETTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gotham: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
J Johnson QuarryStoneUnknown
Mankey QuarryStoneUnknown
Haney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Landon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tubbs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gotham in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindGotham$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down just south of Gotham.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGotham$4,000Power outages and trees damage were reported. A tree falling on power lines caused a fire in the city of Gotham.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindGotham$500Large tree branches were blown down onto power lines in Gotham.
May 1998HailGotham-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindGotham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Twin Bluffs3.7 miles12
Sextonville3.8 miles12
Lone Rock5.7 miles11
Aubrey6.3 miles12
Orion7.4 miles10
Bear Valley7.8 miles11
Ithaca8.1 miles12
Keyesville8.9 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 GothamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5587790The 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 1565683. 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.