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Kewaunee, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kewaunee City. It lies in ZIP code area 54216. It stands on Kewaunee River. The Survey maps it on the Kewaunee quadrangle. 2,837 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

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Kewaunee within Kewaunee County

On record in Kewaunee

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kewaunee fell from 2,952 to 2,837 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
20102,952
20202,837-115 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kewaunee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources44
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
14 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201813
16 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kewaunee: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
C Novak Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kewaunee Cnty. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kewaunee Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kewaunee Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mashek Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rankin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Street Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kewaunee in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 flood, 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2019LightningKewaunee1 hurtA 30 year old male was struck by lightning in the city of Kewaunee. Kewaunee Police say the man was working for a company that was contracted to do some work in the area and had been holding an uncharged power line in the performance of his job when lightning struck. He was transported to the hospital and his condition is unknown.
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Kewaunee$25,000A tornado formed and moved northeast on the west side of the city of Kewaunee. About 100 trees sustained some damage (DI 27,28 DOD 1,2) and several were uprooted in wet soil. Several homes had shingle or siding damage (DI 2, DOD 1,2). A baseball dugout at a school was blown down. Average path width was about 75 yards.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindKewaunee$2,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKewaunee$1,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kewaunee. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kewaunee. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 67 mph at a Mesonet site in Kewaunee.
June 2024HailKewaunee-Penny size hail fell in Kewaunee.
April 2022HailKewaunee-Quarter size hail fell in Kewaunee. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
March 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
May 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
April 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
January 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
February 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
July 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
August 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
September 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
June 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
October 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in and around Kewaunee.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Kewaunee. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
December 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
November 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and branches from Kewaunee to Algoma.
August 2017HailKewaunee-Quarter size hail fell in Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced lime size hail that fell at Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail that fell at the intersection of 3rd Street and Ellis Street in Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail that covered the ground a couple miles southwest of the city of Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail that fell in Kewaunee.
June 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail, winds to at least 40 mph and heavy rain in Kewaunee.
March 2007FloodKewaunee-no account filed
July 2006HailKewaunee-no account filed
July 2006HailKewaunee-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
July 1999LightningKewaunee-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
May 1996HailKewaunee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Rostok3.0 miles8
Birchwood3.6 miles8
East Krok5.6 miles8
Alaska5.7 miles8
Clyde5.8 miles8
Slovan6.6 miles8
Ryans Corner6.7 miles8
Krok7.2 miles8

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 KewauneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q142624The 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 1567445. 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.