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Howards Grove, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Herman town. It lies in ZIP code area 53083. It stands on Fisher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Howards Grove quadrangle. 3,237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Howards Grove within Sheboygan County

Population over time

2 figures

Howards Grove grew from 3,188 to 3,237 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
20103,188
20203,237+49 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Howards Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
9 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2939
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3092
17 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2611
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1076
23 April 2018Smoking2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1292
18 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1217
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19
12 December 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howards Grove in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2008Flash FloodHowards Grove$40,000Heavy rains of 4 inches to over 5 inches affected the Howards Grove area during the mid and late afternoon hours as a line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved east through the area. The heavy rains triggered a flash flood that generated water depths of 1 to 3 feet on some streets. In addition, the middle school flooded, and damage to its gym floor amounted to at least $30,000. Some basements flooded as well, with damage to contents.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Howards Grove$5,000A rapidly developing thunderstorm produced an EF0 tornado that began about 0.6 miles north-northwest of the town of Howards Grove, on Tyler Road, just north of Roosevelt Road and west of STH 42, and ended 0.5 miles south-southwest of the town of Haven, about 0.5 miles north-northeast of the intersection of Rowe Road and Dairyland Drive. The tornado snapped tree branches at sporadic locations along the path, which averaged 25 yards in width with a maximum width of 50 yards, and overturned and damaged an SUV and an attached trailer on I-43. The EF0 wind speed was estimated at 75-80 mph based on DI 27(TH), DOD2. The exact start location is Lat 43.841972 and Lon -87.822667. The exact end location is Lat 43.84111 and Lon -87.75621.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHowards Grove-Fire officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
July 2003HailHowards Grove-no account filed
April 2001FloodHowards Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Edwards3.8 miles9
Haven4.1 miles9
Franklin4.3 miles10
Erdman4.4 miles9
Mosel4.7 miles9
Ada5.0 miles9
Johnsonville5.3 miles10
Kohler6.8 miles10

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 Howards GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1979322The 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 1566769. 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.