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King, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Farmington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54981. It lies near Government Island. The Survey maps it on the King quadrangle. 1,242 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

King within Waupaca County

On record in King

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

King fell from 1,750 to 1,242 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
20101,750
20201,242-508 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of King between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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 burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use32
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Fireworks15
Natural11
Other causes9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5

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 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBURNING BEE
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2015Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPARFREYVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of King: 1 producer. All of them 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
Q PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names King in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindKing$10,000The public reported trees and powerlines down in the town of King, or just southwest of the city of Waupaca. A few trees fell on homes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKing$1,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage west of Waupaca, around King, downing trees and power lines, and tearing shingles from roofs.
June 2014Heavy RainKing$500The combination of heavy rain that fell overnight and additional heavy rainfall from thunderstorms produced saturated soil. Wind gusts from the storms, estimated at 50 mph, uprooted two trees near Waupaca, one of which landed on a house.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKing-Thunderstorm winds snapped a few trees southwest of Waupaca. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKing-Thunderstorm winds uprooted or heavily damaged 10 trees on Onaway Island on the Chain O' Lakes.
August 2015HailKing-A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail and produced wind gusts to 50 mph as it passed through King.
June 2012HailKing-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail at King.
July 2008HailKing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Chain O' Lakes1.6 miles8
Rural1.8 miles8
Parfreyville1.8 miles8
Little Hope2.2 miles8
Waupaca3.3 miles8
Cobb Town4.7 miles8
Sheridan5.0 miles8
Granite Quarry (historical)6.8 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 KingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6411159The 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 1567492. 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.