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Holcombe, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Lake Holcombe town. It lies in ZIP code area 54745. The Survey maps it on the Holcombe quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Holcombe within Chippewa County

Population over time

2 figures

Holcombe fell from 267 to 239 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
2010267
2020239-28 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Holcombe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism11
Other causes7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
25 September 2012Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHISSING SHED FIRE
12 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTENNIAL FIRE
27 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOLCOMBE DIKE FIRE
24 June 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holcombe: 2 producers. All of them 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
George Bruyette PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stamper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holcombe in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 2010Thunderstorm WindHolcombe$25,000Numerous trees were blown down around Holcombe, Wisconsin. Some trees were very large in diameter, while others were snapped off three to four feet from their bases.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHolcombe$3,000A few large trees were blown down or uprooted around Holcombe.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHolcombe-A storm survey found many dozens of trees (possibly several hundred) were downed, mostly along the north side of Pine Lake and on the east side of Holcombe Flowage, northwest of the village of Holcombe. Some trees landed on sheds, houses, and vehicles.
May 2022HailHolcombe-A social media picture of one inch hail was observed near Holcombe.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHolcombe-A few trees were blown down near Highway 27 and County Road W.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHolcombe-A few trees were blown down near County Road M and CC.
June 2020Heavy RainHolcombe-A measured rainfall report of 2.93 inches occurred over the past 12 hours near Holcombe.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHolcombe-Several trees were toppled at Pine Point County Park on Lake Holcombe. A pontoon and boat lift were overturned.
August 2005HailHolcombe-Quarter sized hail fell in Section 22 of Ruby Township.
July 2023HailHolcombe-no account filed
July 2014HailHolcombe-no account filed
July 2014HailHolcombe-no account filed
May 2012HailHolcombe-no account filed
September 2012HailHolcombe-no account filed
April 2011HailHolcombe-no account filed
August 2011HailHolcombe-no account filed
July 2010HailHolcombe-no account filed
July 2000HailHolcombe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Cornell4.3 miles6
Arnold6.2 miles6
Ruby7.6 miles6
Cobban9.6 miles6
Huron10.2 miles6
Crescent10.9 miles6
Drywood12.4 miles6
Colburn13.3 miles6

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 HolcombeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9004445The 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 1566537. 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.