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Highland, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Highland town. It lies in ZIP code area 53543. The Survey maps it on the Highland West quadrangle. 874 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Highland within Iowa County

Population over time

2 figures

Highland grew from 842 to 874 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
2010842
2020874+32 (+4%)

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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOMPEY PILLAR
6 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCTH I FIRE
5 April 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCAMP ROAD TRACTOR FIRE
5 April 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2007Recreation and ceremony13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Highland: 18 unknowns, 15 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Hackl QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Steppler Farm ProspectCopper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Clark Mine Group, Copper ProspectCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Lampe-Eberle MineCopper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1900
Unnamed Prospect Near Blue RiverCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Blue RiverCopperOccurrence
Cherry BranchLead, ZincPast Producer
Highland MineLead, ZincPast Producer1846
Red Jacket MineLead, ZincPast Producer1906
St.Anthony MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2004Flash FloodHighland$100,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHighland$20,000Trees down down along Delany St. and Dodgeville St. in Highland. A fallen tree causing substantial damage to the roof of a home.
August 2021HailHighland$20,000Multiple reports of tennis ball sized hail from farmers in NW Iowa County.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHighland$15,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHighland$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHighland$2,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts to around 52 knots (60 mph) toppled saeveral large trees and branches. A power-line was damaged.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindHighland$1,000no account filed
August 2021Tornado (EF1)Highland-This tornado spawned off of the same storm that produced the EF-3 tornado near Boscobel, but was clearly of a different track. This EF-1 went through mainly rural areas north to northeast of Highland. The main damage occurred to a farm off of Camp Rd, which was close to the beginning of the path. Mainly tree damage was noted along the rest of the path.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHighland-Law enforcement officials reported a hay wagon was blown over by severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph (56 knots).
June 2011HailHighland-The report was received from WMTV-15 in Madison.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHighland-Law enforcement reported a number of trees blown down by strong thunderstorm wind gusts in and around the village of Highland.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHighland-Garbage cans were reported being airborne with large broken tree limbs.
June 2011HailHighland-no account filed
June 2011HailHighland-no account filed
June 2011HailHighland-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHighland-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHighland-no account filed
June 2000Funnel CloudHighland-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindHighland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Cobb6.1 miles12
Edmund8.2 miles12
Avoca9.8 miles10
Clyde10.2 miles11
Linden10.5 miles12
Mifflin12.2 miles13
Rewey14.1 miles14
Dodgeville14.5 miles14

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 HighlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q938025The 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 1566387. 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.