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Kaukauna, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Kaukauna City. It lies in ZIP code area 54130. It stands on Kankapot Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kaukauna quadrangle. 17,089 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Kaukauna within Outagamie County

On record in Kaukauna

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 12 of 17 shown

Every listing in Outagamie County

Population over time

2 figures

Kaukauna grew from 15,462 to 17,089 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
201015,462
202017,089+1,627 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Kaukauna between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20CL029
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAP00199
30 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources36
25 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18BU001
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200931
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources235
1 July 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources28
4 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200592

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie 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 Kaukauna: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Bodde Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kaukauna Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kaukauna in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2011Tornado (EF2)Kaukauna$6,700,000A fast moving tornado touched down in the southwest side of Kaukauna near County Road CE at 8:43 pm CDT (1743 CST). The tornado cut through the center of a subdivision as it moved north-northeast to near the Fox River before lifting off the ground. Seven homes were destroyed, 24 homes and four businesses sustained major damage, and 160 other homes sustained minor damage. Several houses lost large sections of their roofs (DI 2, DOD 6) in the hardest hit area of the city. The average path width was 125 yards.
August 2010Flash FloodKaukauna$25,000Heavy rain fell across the Fox Valley, causing flash flooding near Kaukauna. Nearby Darboy measured 3.50 inches of rain during the morning storms. Kankapot Creek in Kaukauna flooded Highway KK, which was closed for some time. Wisconsin International Raceway, which was hosting a Pyrotechnics Guild International event, had to be evacuated due to the flood.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKaukauna$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kaukauna.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKaukauna$4,000Thunderstorm winds snapped large trees about five feet above the ground in Kaukauna.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKaukauna$2,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKaukauna-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Kaukauna. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Kaukauna-A tornado formed at 8:58 pm CDT southwest of the village of Kaukauna in southeastern Outagamie County and continued northeast before dissipating at 9:02 pm CDT in Central Park on the Fox River. Total path length is estimated to be 2.69 miles long, with a width of 80 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 100 mph.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKaukauna-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Kaukauna and Little Chute. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021HailKaukauna-Half dollar size hail fell in Kaukauna. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2011HailKaukauna-Golf ball size hail fell in Kaukauna.
May 2011Funnel CloudKaukauna-A funnel cloud was reported by the public over Kaukauna.
August 2010HailKaukauna-Hail described as grape size fell in Kaukauna.
January 2008HailKaukauna-no account filed
July 2008HailKaukauna-no account filed
July 2006HailKaukauna-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKaukauna-no account filed
August 1998HailKaukauna-no account filed
June 1998LightningKaukauna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Combined Locks2.4 miles9
Little Chute2.5 miles9
Kimberly3.6 miles9
Whispering Pines5.9 miles10
Apple Creek6.3 miles9
Freedom7.5 miles8
Bell Heights7.6 miles10
Appleton7.7 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 KaukaunaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570157The 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 1567364. 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.