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Hixton, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hixton Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54635. It stands on Tank Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hixton quadrangle. 456 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Hixton within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Hixton grew from 433 to 456 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
2010433
2020456+23 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hixton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
11 September 2003Arson/incendiarism6.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20052
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hixton in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHixton$75,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in the Hixton area.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHixton$30,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHixton$2,000Trees were blown down southeast of Hixton across County Road A.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHixton$2,000Trees were blown down southeast of Hixton.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHixton$1,500no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHixton$500no account filed
August 2009Heavy RainHixton-An observer measured 6.50 inches of rain during the preceding 24-hours.
June 2004HailHixton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Sechlerville1.3 miles13
North Branch4.3 miles13
Alma Center6.5 miles13
Northfield6.8 miles13
Taylor7.2 miles13
York8.2 miles13
Disco8.5 miles13
Merrillan10.2 miles13

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 HixtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969478The 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 1566491. 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.

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.