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Gresham, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gresham Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54128. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gresham quadrangle. 530 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Gresham within Shawano County

On record in Gresham

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gresham fell from 586 to 530 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
2010586
2020530-56 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Gresham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018131
5 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano 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 Gresham: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Gresham Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O and S PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shawano County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spencer Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gresham in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindGresham$5,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGresham$1,000no account filed
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Gresham-A weak tornado briefly touched down in an open field near the Shawano/Menominee County line. The tornado was photographed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGresham-Thunderstorm winds downed trees around Gresham.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGresham-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Red Springs Township.
June 2007HailGresham-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGresham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Lyndhurst1.5 miles7
Morgan2.9 miles7
Red River4.8 miles8
Thornton6.4 miles8
Leopolis6.6 miles7
Tilleda7.0 miles7
Pella7.7 miles8
Bowler10.3 miles7

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 GreshamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2388718The 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 1581552. 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.