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Houlton, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Joseph town. It lies in ZIP code area 54082. The Survey maps it on the Stillwater quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Houlton within St. Croix County

On record in Houlton

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Houlton fell from 386 to 377 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
2010386
2020377-9 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Houlton between 2000 and 2020, burning about 31 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 burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSaint Croix National Scenic RiverHECKOFADAY
8 May 2017Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources46
28 April 2003Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSaint Croix National Scenic RiverFOSTERS 1
14 March 2015Debris and open burning14 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 October 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20337
22 October 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Houlton: 12 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Moelter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Moelter Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bright Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Houlton Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Houlton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Hudson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Hudson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pete Miller Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pete Miller Pit and Mill No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pete Miller's Highway 94 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Croix County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houlton in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHoulton-A 100 pound picnic table was blown over.
May 2022HailHoulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Croix 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
North Hudson5.0 miles18
Hudson6.2 miles18
Northline6.4 miles12
Burkhardt7.1 miles14
Burkhardt Station7.4 miles14
Somerset7.6 miles14
Sono Junction7.7 miles12
Country View Court8.7 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 HoultonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5913145The 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 1581648. 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.