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Ixonia, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ixonia town. It lies in ZIP code area 53036. The Survey maps it on the Ixonia quadrangle. 2,367 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Ixonia within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Ixonia grew from 1,624 to 2,367 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
20101,624
20202,367+743 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

206 words on this township

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Ixonia Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Pipersville and Ixonia Center are the two points of interest in this town. Jans H. Stren now seventy-seven years of age, claims to have been the first settler in that part of the Roc River A'^alley. Ixonia Center may be said to have been first located on the river, one mile ea: of its present site. At one time, there were two hotels, a steam saw-mill and a store (by Samui Piper) on the old site ; but when the railroad was built, in 1856, Ixonia Center took flight, i it were, and settled down in Sections 21 and 22, to become a station on the La Crosse Divisio of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The Postmasters at the Center have been Samui Piper, H. E. Iluniplirey and James McCall. There are now two stores, one saloon, one blac smith and turning shop, two shoemaker shops, one church, one cheese-factory, a public schoo and one elevator. The population is estimated at one hundred. "Old Man "McCall wt mong the first settlers, but that jolly old individual, Jans Strem, who remembers so vividly the reat amount of fun he had '" niit de var," insists that "I vas de fir^tee man; you can see lino hair."

Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.

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 Ixonia Town.

Fires near this place

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ixonia between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
15 June 2018Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801158
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
7 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
7 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804119
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
24 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources149

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ixonia: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Fredericks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oakfield Brick PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ixonia in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 3 hail. 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 1997LightningIxonia$250,000Lightning struck a machine shed. The ensuing fire destroyed the half-dozen pieces of farm equipment inside.
October 1996LightningIxonia$50,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIxonia$12,000Numerous branches and trees down in the Ixonia area with scattered tree damage over the remainder of the county.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindIxonia$12,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindIxonia$5,000no account filed
September 2025Thunderstorm WindIxonia$2,000Law enforcement reports several trees down.
May 2025HailIxonia-no account filed
April 2023HailIxonia-no account filed
June 2022HailIxonia-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindIxonia-no account filed
April 1996LightningIxonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Pipersville2.8 miles19
Lake Lac La Belle2.9 miles18
Concord5.1 miles18
Farmington6.1 miles18
Spacious Acres7.1 miles18
Ebenezer7.5 miles19
Watertown7.8 miles19
Sullivan9.1 miles18

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 IxoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6101129The 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 1567051. 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.