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Humbird, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mentor town. It lies in ZIP code area 54746. It sits by Humbird Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Fairchild quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Humbird within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Humbird fell from 266 to 254 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
2010266
2020254-12 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Humbird between 1992 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1996Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Humbird: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Hardwick Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson Valley Stone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Matti Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humbird in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindHumbird1 hurt, $5,000no account filed
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Humbird$140,000This stronger EF1 tornado leveled trees and powerlines along an intermittent track that was mixed with downburst winds. The tornado was overtaken by a downburst, which caused pockets of tree and outbuilding damage for another 7 miles.
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Humbird$50,000This EF2 tornado developed in Jackson County and moved into the southwest part of Clark County east of Humbird. The tornado continued to move northeast before dissipating along County Highway B west of Sidney. This part of Clark County is heavily forested and thousands of trees were damaged.
April 2026HailHumbird$25,000The public reported 2 inch diameter hail near Humbird.
August 2006HailHumbird$25,000no account filed
September 1998HailHumbird$25,000no account filed
May 2025HailHumbird$11,000The public reported two inch diameter hail in Humbird. The report was relayed via social media.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindHumbird$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down north of Humbird.
September 2018FloodHumbird$5,000Runoff from heavy rain caused water to go over roads near Humbird.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHumbird$2,000Trees were blown down east of Humbird.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHumbird$2,000Trees were blown down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 10 and County Road I north of Humbird.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHumbird$1,500The public reported several trees down and estimated wind gusts of sixty to seventy miles per hour.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHumbird$1,000no account filed
April 2006HailHumbird$750no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHumbird-A couple of trees blown down near the intersection of Bemis Road and Highway B.
April 2001HailHumbird-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Trow (historical)7.2 miles13
Columbia9.0 miles11
Tioga11.8 miles12
Sidney13.4 miles11
Globe14.9 miles12
Neillsville15.7 miles11
Willard16.8 miles12
Christie17.5 miles11

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 HumbirdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5940158The 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 1566795. 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.