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Hustisford, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hustisford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53034. It stands on Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hustisford quadrangle. 1,101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Hustisford within Dodge County

On record in Hustisford

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hustisford fell from 1,123 to 1,101 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
20101,123
20201,101-22 (-2%)

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.

In the county-history sources

10,282 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Hustisford Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first settlement of which we find record was in 1845, Caleb Northrup being the pioneer. G. Taylor, J. H. Warren, J. Loop, II. Mace and others came shortly after. The first school in the town was in 1846, located on Section 3. Rev. James W. Burton preached the first sermon in the township in 1846, and, in the following year, the German Lutherans built a house of worship on Section 35. There are now in the town eight churches. Much of the history of this town will be found in the history of the village of Horicon, and therefore we give a very brief notice of many things. The first mill was built by Larrabee & Co. in 1847, on Rock River, in the present village of Horicon. The town is traversed by two railroads - the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and Fond du Lac, Amboy & Peoria, the history of which is given elsewhere. There are under cultivation in the town 21,205 acres of land, and some of the best in the county. Wheat is the principal product.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

This town is bounded on the north by Le Roy, on the south by Hubbard, on the east by Theresa, and on the west by Burnett. It is in Town 12 north. Range 16 east, and is a timber country. Its first settlers were the Fosters, Mays, Palmers and others, and its history dates back to 1845. There are two villages in the town, Mayville and Kekoskee. The Fond du Lac, Amboy & Peoria Railroad traverses the eastern part from north to south, giving the farmers, merchants and others the conveniences incident thereto. There are subject to assessment 21,293 acres of land, valued at $602,915. In 1870, the population of the town was 2,305. In 1879, we find in cultivation, of wheat, 4,726 acres; corn, 785 ; oats, 694 ; barley, 398 ; rye, 140 ; potatoes, 102 ; apple orchards, 169 ; grasses, 1,223.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

In the fall of 1845, Alfred Lamberson settled in the present town of Le Roy. He was followed shortly afterward by Rufus Cowles, Austin Graves, C. Holdridge, David Niles, C. and B. Parrish, Ira Hodge, H. Barnes, James Patrick and B. G. Gill. Together with their respective families, these gentlemen formed quite a respectable settlement.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Hustisford Town - it names this place 51 more 51 times.

Fires near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hustisford between 1994 and 1996, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
20 May 1994Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 1996Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 1994Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hustisford: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Allen Rudolph PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartosch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bohnert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kranich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roll PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hustisford in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHustisford$75,600A squall line produced an estimated 100 mph downburst just east of Hustisford.|An equipment building had its roof removed with some walls collapsed. A calf shed was destroyed with large items within the shed displaced. The town hall had minor damage to its roof and the flag pole was bent. A wooden power pole was snapped and some shingles were removed from a home. About a dozen trees were downed with some being snapped and some uprooted. One tree fell on a home and some corn was damaged.
June 2024FloodHustisford$10,000Flooding of several basements and yards on the west side of Iron Ridge when a culvert became plugged. The electricity was shut off until the water receded. The flooding of a creek eroded the shoulder of County Highway AY near Madison Road, just east of Iron Ridge. A business dock was flooded in Horicon.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHustisford$10,000Numerous large trees and branches down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHustisford$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were reported blown down by damaging thunderstorm wind gusts in the Hustisford area. A tree fell on a home damaging the roof. A tree fell on an occupied car, and the driver injured his shoulder (indirectly-related) exiting the car. Total damage in the area amounted to $10,000.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHustisford$5,000Straight-line winds from a thunderstorm outflow boundary uprooted a few trees and blew a shed apart.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHustisford$5,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHustisford$4,000A large tree fell on a home.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHustisford$3,000A tree branch around 4-6 inches in diameter fell onto a residential structure.
July 2025Tornado (EF0)Hustisford$2,000Tornado developed south of Hustisford near the intersection of Hillcrest Road and County Road E where a corn field had a convergent path going north-northeast through mainly farmland. The tornado hit some trees south of Highway 60 and east of County Road E before tracking north and going through the intersection of Juneau Street and Oakwood Boulevard. The tornado appears to have ended over Sinissippi Lake.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHustisford$2,000Tree and power line damage with a tree on fire.
July 2011LightningHustisford$2,000Newspapers reported a lightning strike that caused a minor fire at a home on State Highway 60, just west of Hustisford. The fire filled the basement with smoke.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHustisford$500A second round of severe thunderstorms affected Hustisford with damaging winds. This round downed trees that damaged a fence and did $500 worth of damage to a house.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHustisford-Trees down.
May 2014HailHustisford-no account filed
March 2007HailHustisford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Woodland4.7 miles9
Neosho5.0 miles9
Iron Ridge5.2 miles10
Neda6.2 miles10
Clyman Junction6.4 miles9
Lebanon6.4 miles9
Clyman6.8 miles9
Juneau6.9 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 HustisfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980802The 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 1566830. 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.