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Kohler, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kohler Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53044. It stands on Weedons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sheboygan Falls quadrangle. 2,195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Kohler within Sheboygan County

On record in Kohler

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kohler grew from 2,120 to 2,195 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
20102,120
20202,195+75 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Kohler between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3762
12 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3283
31 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2360
10 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1679
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1469
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1310
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1518
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1713

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kohler in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 hail. 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
March 2013FloodKohler$15,000The Sheboygan near Sheboygan crested at 11.54 feet, 3.54 feet above flood stage, at 805 pm CDT on March 12th.
April 2013FloodKohler$10,000The Sheboygan River in Sheboygan experienced moderate flooding, cresting at 10.23 feet, or 2.23 feet over the flood stage of 8 feet, at 925 PM CDT on April 11th.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKohler$5,000Multiple reports of trees and large branches down as well as a power pole on fire.
March 2019FloodKohler$5,000The Sheboygan River flooded low lying areas along the river due to several ice jams. The most impacted area was from just east of Kohler downstream to Kiwanis Park in Sheboygan. Portions of Indiana Ave. and New Jersey Ave., as well as other roads were closed due to flooding. At least one vehicle was submerged in the floodwaters on New Jersey Ave.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKohler$2,000Several tree limbs down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindKohler$2,000Large tree branches down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKohler$500A large american flag at 400 feet above ground was shredded by strong winds. A measured wind gust of 90 mph was recorded at the top of the flag pole.
July 2006HailKohler-no account filed
June 1999HailKohler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Sheboygan Falls1.7 miles10
Indian Meadows2.6 miles9
Ourtown3.6 miles10
Sheboygan3.7 miles9
Erdman3.7 miles9
Mosel5.1 miles9
Gibbsville6.5 miles10
Kennedys Corners (historical)6.5 miles10

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 KohlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1675911The 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 1567601. 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.

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.