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.
Population over time
2 figuresJohnson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,738 | |
| 2020 | 3,318 | +580 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1910 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Jefferson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 137 |
| 19 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 257 |
| 10 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 94 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 253 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | JEFFERSON MARSH 1 |
| 3 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20065 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 153 |
| 25 March 2010 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aztalan Township Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Hail | Johnson Creek | $4,360,000 | Hail sizes ranged from 1.00 to 2.50 inches in diameter. |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Johnson Creek | $150,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Johnson Creek | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | $20,000 | A 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | $20,000 | Powerful 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | $12,000 | A swath of numerous branches down in the southern portion of Johnson Creek. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Heavy Rain | Johnson Creek | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | Wind driven golf ball sized hail. Wind gusts around 50 mph. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | Report from the public of baseball-sized hail that broke windows on homes and vehicles. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | - | Trees down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson 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 2017 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Johnson Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Junction | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Grellton | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Milford | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Aztalan | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Ebenezer | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Jefferson | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Farmington | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Hoopers Mill | 5.9 miles | 16 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2183531 | The 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.








