Herbster, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54844. It stands on Cranberry River. The Survey maps it on the Herbster quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.
On record in Herbster
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
Herbster Community Centerlisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresHerbster grew from 104 to 130 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 104 | |
| 2020 | 130 | +26 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Port Wing quadrangle1:48000
- 1946 USGS Port Wing quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Port Wing quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Port Wing quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Herbster quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Herbster between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | KLAUNG RD |
| 29 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2020 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | APARTMENT |
| 24 May 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LENAWEE RD FIRE |
| 10 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Herbster: 1 occurrence, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. T. Guyer Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| H. J. Ehlers Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
7 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herbster in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Herbster | 1 hurt, $50,000 | A 5 foot wide section of State Highway 13 just east of Herbster washed out when the culvert underneath failed. A car drove into the washout and the driver was trapped but only had minor injuries. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herbster | - | A tree was down at the spotter's location. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Herbster | - | The ground was completely white after the storm. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herbster | - | A 75 foot tall, two foot diameter pine tree was snapped off near its base. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herbster | - | A tree was snapped by strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Herbster | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Herbster | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bark Point | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Port Wing | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cornucopia | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Topside | 19.1 miles | 12 | |
| Oulu | 19.9 miles | 10 | |
| Iron River | 20.1 miles | 13 | |
| Moquah | 20.4 miles | 12 | |
| Sand Bay | 21.1 miles | 10 |
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 Herbster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5691363 | The 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 1566314. 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.






