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Johnson Creek, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Johnson Creek Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53038. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle. 3,318 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Johnson Creek within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Johnson Creek grew from 2,738 to 3,318 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
20102,738
20203,318+580 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

13 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Creek between 2010 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources137
19 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources257
10 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources94
7 April 2018Debris and open burning253 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH 1
3 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20065
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources153
25 March 2010Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Johnson Creek: 1 past producer. 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
Aztalan Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnson Creek in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2006HailJohnson Creek$4,360,000Hail sizes ranged from 1.00 to 2.50 inches in diameter.
June 1996Flash FloodJohnson Creek$150,000no account filed
July 2000HailJohnson Creek$50,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek$20,000A swath of sporadic tree damage from just south of Johnson Creek to Helenville to Rome to near Palmyra. Power lines downed by branches and trees falling on them.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek$20,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts toppled several large trees and broke branches that brought down some power-lines. Five tents were damaged at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek$12,000A swath of numerous branches down in the southern portion of Johnson Creek.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek$4,000no account filed
April 1998Heavy RainJohnson Creek$3,000no account filed
June 2022HailJohnson Creek-Wind driven golf ball sized hail. Wind gusts around 50 mph.
May 2011HailJohnson Creek-Report from the public of baseball-sized hail that broke windows on homes and vehicles.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek-Trees down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek-Scattered severe thunderstorms raced from west central to south central and southeast Wisconsin generating hail up to 1 inch in diameter and gusty winds to 60 mph. Over $100,000 in property damage occurred to 43 homes in the Star Prairie area of St. Croix county due to intense thunderstorm winds. Other damage was confined to trees and power lines.
July 2017HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
May 2012HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
May 2012HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
June 2011HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudJohnson Creek-no account filed
July 2008HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek-no account filed
May 2004HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
May 2001HailJohnson Creek-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindJohnson Creek-no account filed
July 1998HailJohnson Creek-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
Jefferson Junction2.8 miles15
Grellton4.1 miles15
Milford4.2 miles15
Aztalan4.7 miles15
Ebenezer4.7 miles19
Jefferson5.2 miles15
Farmington5.4 miles18
Hoopers Mill5.9 miles16

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 Johnson CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2183531The 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 1567212. 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.