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Krakow, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 54137. The Survey maps it on the Krakow quadrangle. 378 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Krakow within Shawano County

Population over time

2 figures

Krakow grew from 354 to 378 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
2010354
2020378+24 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Krakow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning29
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2015Fireworks8.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMORGAN MARSH RD FIRE
3 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1997Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Krakow: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Beech Drive Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Peters QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Church Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Green Valley Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kraczwski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krakow Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nichols Drive Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paitz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pensaukee River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Peters Trucking Co,Incperrets PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Krakow in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindKrakow-Thunderstorm winds estimated near 60 mph downed several large tree branches south of Krakow. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
August 2015HailKrakow-A thunderstorm dropped tennis ball size hail as it passed through Krakow. Hail size is an estimated based on a photo on social media and time is estimated based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Green Valley2.5 miles6
Advance4.6 miles6
Zachow6.3 miles8
Angelica6.9 miles8
Pulcifer8.1 miles6
Laney8.3 miles8
Frazer Corners8.4 miles8
Hofa Park10.0 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 KrakowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6435946The 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 1567637. 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.