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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.

Kekoskee within Dodge County

Population over time

2 figures

Kekoskee 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.

YearPeople Change
2010161
2020896+735 (+457%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

21 since 1994

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeGRINDER WF
21 September 2005Debris and open burning280 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeDNR CLARK'S DITCH
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeSOUTH POINT WF
16 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBRUMMOND WF
11 May 1997Recreation and ceremony40 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeMAIN DIKE
9 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 1994Debris and open burning6.1 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeEE BARN 2
24 April 2003Debris and open burning250 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeI-9 IMPOUNDMENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Farmersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Western Lime-Knowles QuarryCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKekoskee$2,000Six to 12 inch diameter tree limbs down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKekoskee-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 2003Tornado (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 2025HailKekoskee-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindKekoskee-no account filed
May 2004HailKekoskee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Farmersville2.5 miles10
Mayville2.6 miles10
LeRoy3.0 miles10
Knowles4.2 miles10
Nasbro5.4 miles10
Theresa5.9 miles9
Horicon6.6 miles10
Hochheim7.0 miles15

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 KekoskeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2102645The 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.