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Kieler, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jamestown town. It lies in ZIP code area 53812. It stands on Kieler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kieler quadrangle. 557 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Kieler within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Kieler grew from 497 to 557 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
2010497
2020557+60 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jamestown town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 - Jamestown Town

The Harney Murder

One of the most terrible crimes in the annals of the county was committed at Fairplay September 25,1865. Dr. Harney, an old resi¬ dent of the place, and a man of good character (except that he was subject to fits of almost insane anger), killed his step-daughter and seriously injured his wife. The daughter of Mrs.

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In the county-history sources

3,188 words on this township

History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jamestown Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jamestown Town - 3,188 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kieler between 1996 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20052
24 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexJDMARSH
17 March 2000Debris and open burning5.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources31938

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kieler: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Iron, Lead. 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
Red Dog MineZinc, Iron, LeadPast Producer
Bob Richards QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eagle Point Lime WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay Level MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Kowalski-Kieler Inc Kieler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rose Spur Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Travis Farm ProspectsLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kieler in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKieler$460,000High winds from severe thunderstorms created considerable damage from Keiler and Dickeyville east to Cuba City and Hazel Green. Farm buildings were damaged and corn was flattened along County Roads H and Z. Between Keiler and Cuba City, numerous homes had siding and shingles blown off or were damaged by falling trees. More than three dozen trees were blown down, a barn was destroyed and several buildings received minor damage along Banfield and Indian Creek Roads. In Dickeyville, a roof was torn off, a side wall of a building knocked down and trees were uprooted or snapped off. North of Hazel Green, a machine shed was destroyed. Numerous power lines were blown down causing power outages over a large portion of southern Grant County.
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Kieler$35,000This brief EF-1 tornado touched down in Kieler producing tree damage and roof damage to two structures. The tornado crossed County Road H and dissipated after damaging an outbuilding near the road. The tornado path was determined using drone footage provided by emergency management.
May 1999HailKieler$25,000no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodKieler$8,000Water was reported over Highway 151 near Kieler.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKieler$8,000no account filed
November 2015Thunderstorm WindKieler$5,000Power lines were blown down in Kieler.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindKieler$3,500no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKieler$500Thunderstorm winds blew down trees across West Lane.
May 1999HailKieler-no account filed
May 1998HailKieler-no account filed
July 1997HailKieler-no account filed
May 1997HailKieler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Rutledge2.5 miles19
Louisburg2.5 miles17
Sandy Hook2.7 miles17
Jamestown2.9 miles17
Dickeyville3.2 miles17
Fair Play3.9 miles17
Prairie Corners4.8 miles17
Sinsinawa5.2 miles17

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 KielerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q517017The 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 1567464. 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.