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Hawkins, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hawkins town. It lies in ZIP code area 54530. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hawkins quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Hawkins within Rusk County

Population over time

2 figures

Hawkins grew from 305 to 331 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
2010305
2020331+26 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Hawkins between 1992 and 2019, burning about 90 acres in total. 1 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN GRASS
17 June 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hawkins: 11 past producers, 10 occurrences. 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
Cliff Edge Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Craters Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Creek Bend Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Creeking Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crestside Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Double Branch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hawkins Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lake Laverne Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lake Laverne Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lakeshore Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawkins in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 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
August 2011Flash FloodHawkins$50,000Two county roads were washed out in far eastern Rusk County due to excessive rainfall of two to four inches in less than 2 hours.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Several reports were received near the town of Hawkins, WI that trees and powerlines were downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHawkins-A NWS Storm Survey indicated that straight-line winds, up to 80 mph, occurred in a small part of far northeast Rusk County. Based on the survey, the damage path that occurred in Sawyer County, continued along the path into far northeast Rusk County. There were reports of numerous large trees blown down across this area.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Several trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Severe wind gusts caused trees to be blown down near Hawkins, Wisconsin.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Trees were downed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Scattered trees toppled.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Few trees down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHawkins-Estimated winds, several trees down.
July 2023HailHawkins-no account filed
August 2010HailHawkins-no account filed
April 2002HailHawkins-no account filed
September 1999HailHawkins-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Hawkins-no account filed
June 1998HailHawkins-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindHawkins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Riverside Estates0.5 miles9
Ingram5.0 miles7
Glen Flora9.3 miles8
Tony14.6 miles8
Sheldon Estates18.7 miles7
Sheldon18.9 miles7
Conrath19.1 miles7
Ladysmith20.7 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 HawkinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232746The 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 1566157. 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.