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.
Population over time
2 figuresHowards 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,188 | |
| 2020 | 3,237 | +49 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Howards Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Howards Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Sheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2939 |
| 19 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3092 |
| 17 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2611 |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1076 |
| 23 April 2018 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1292 |
| 18 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1217 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19 |
| 12 December 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 98 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Howards Grove | $40,000 | Heavy 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 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Howards Grove | $5,000 | A 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Howards Grove | - | Fire officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph). |
| July 2003 | Hail | Howards Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Flood | Howards Grove | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1979322 | The 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.




