Kekoskee, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Kekoskee Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53050. It stands on Gill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mayville North quadrangle. 896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKekoskee grew from 161 to 896 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 | 161 | |
| 2020 | 896 | +735 (+457%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Waupun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Waupun SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Mayville North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Kekoskee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,418 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | GRINDER WF |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 280 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | DNR CLARK'S DITCH |
| 15 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | SOUTH POINT WF |
| 16 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | BRUMMOND WF |
| 11 May 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | MAIN DIKE |
| 9 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 6.1 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | EE BARN 2 |
| 24 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | I-9 IMPOUNDMENT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kekoskee: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmersville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Western Lime-Knowles Quarry | Calcium | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kekoskee in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kekoskee | $2,000 | Six to 12 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kekoskee | - | The Dodge County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down in a 4-mile wide swath from Kekoskee to east of Brownsville from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 64 mph (56 knots). |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Kekoskee | - | A brief, weak tornado spun up over the eastern edge of the Horicon Marsh and west of Kekoskee (just west of Rockvale Rd.), resulting in only minor vegetative damage. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Kekoskee | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kekoskee | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Kekoskee | - | 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.
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 Kekoskee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2102645 | 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 1567376. 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.





