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.
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
Commandant's Residence Homelisted 1985
Halfway Houselisted 1982
Veterans Cottages Historic Districtlisted 1985
Veterans Home Chapellisted 1985- Old Hospitallisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresKing 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,750 | |
| 2020 | 1,242 | -508 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Waupaca quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS King quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
252 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Fireworks | 15 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Other causes | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
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 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BURNING BEE |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PARFREYVILLE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | King | $10,000 | The 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | King | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage west of Waupaca, around King, downing trees and power lines, and tearing shingles from roofs. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | King | $500 | The 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | King | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped a few trees southwest of Waupaca. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | King | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted or heavily damaged 10 trees on Onaway Island on the Chain O' Lakes. |
| August 2015 | Hail | King | - | A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail and produced wind gusts to 50 mph as it passed through King. |
| June 2012 | Hail | King | - | Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail at King. |
| July 2008 | Hail | King | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chain O' Lakes | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rural | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Parfreyville | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Little Hope | 2.2 miles | 8 | |
| Waupaca | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Cobb Town | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sheridan | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Granite Quarry (historical) | 6.8 miles | 8 |
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 King | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6411159 | 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 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.



