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Howard, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Howard Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54303. It lies near Platten Hill. The Survey maps it on the Green Bay West quadrangle. 19,950 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Howard within Brown County

On record in Howard

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

Population over time

2 figures

Howard grew from 17,399 to 19,950 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
201017,399
202019,950+2,551 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Howard between 2006 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources449
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201556
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2009982
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2008903
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837711
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources770
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources752
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Howard: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Bentonite, 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
Daanen and Janssen Howard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Green Bay Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Hurlbut Calcium & Chemical CompanyLimestone, General, BentonitePlant
Kraszewski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gibson QuarryStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howard in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 1998Flash FloodHoward$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHoward$1,000no account filed
May 2012HailHoward-Nickel size hail fell in the Village of Howard.
July 2007HailHoward-Penny size hail was reported by a local TV meteorologist.
June 2006HailHoward-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHoward-no account filed
September 1998HailHoward-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindHoward-no account filed
September 1998HailHoward-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Elm Tree Corners0.9 miles9
Cormier1.4 miles9
Duck Creek1.6 miles9
Green Bay4.0 miles9
Ashwaubenon4.3 miles10
Hobart4.5 miles8
Mill Center4.9 miles7
Oneida5.9 miles8

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 HowardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671497The 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 1566765. 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.