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Jim Falls, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Anson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54748. The Survey maps it on the Jim Falls quadrangle. 231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Jim Falls within Chippewa County

Population over time

2 figures

Jim Falls fell from 237 to 231 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
2010237
2020231-6 (-3%)

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.

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Jim Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
12 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeRUNNING S
18 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWERLINE SPRUCE
19 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesS AND J 1
8 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCLOVERBELT FIRE
6 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFELSKE FIRE
6 May 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 Jim Falls: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Chippewa County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J. Dresel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jim Falls in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2024HailJim Falls-Reported via social media.
July 2015Flash FloodJim Falls-Flood waters closed the intersection of Highway K and 170th Street south of Cornell.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindJim Falls-A few trees were blown down in Jim Falls, Wisconsin.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJim Falls-Several large trees blown down across Highway 178.
June 2005HailJim Falls-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in Jim Falls and just east of the village. The highway department had to sweep the roads because of all of the leaf debris the hail storm left behind. Crop damage was also reported in the vicinity. Hail damage was reported on cars in Eagle Point and Jim Falls.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJim Falls-A downed tree blocked a road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJim Falls-Numerous trees were downed.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindJim Falls-Trees and powerlines blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJim Falls-Campers and trees blown over. Estimated windspeed.
September 2016HailJim Falls-no account filed
July 2008HailJim Falls-no account filed
July 2008HailJim Falls-no account filed
July 2008HailJim Falls-no account filed
March 1998HailJim Falls-no account filed
August 1996HailJim Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Anson4.5 miles14
Cobban5.3 miles6
Drywood5.6 miles6
Eagleton6.3 miles9
Eagle Point6.6 miles9
Crescent6.9 miles6
Bateman7.9 miles14
Norma8.2 miles14

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 Jim FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6194915The 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 1567178. 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.