Lena, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lena Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54139. The Survey maps it on the Lena quadrangle. 537 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
On record in Lena
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 1 record
Mathey Buildinglisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresLena fell from 564 to 537 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 | 564 | |
| 2020 | 537 | -27 (-5%) |
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
- 1956 USGS Oconto Falls quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1974 USGS Lena quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
156 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Lena between 1993 and 2017, burning about 232 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2003 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 4 |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lena: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groveland Mine & Plant | Iron | Producer | ||
| Military Road Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmer Hubbard Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gene Sager Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Spruce Township Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Zimmerman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lena in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused a barn to collapse and tore the roof from another. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked over part of a tall fence and caused the roof of a barn to collapse near Lena. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Lena | - | Penny size hail fell in Lena. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Lena | - | Penny size hail fell near Lena. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lena | - | Penny size hail fell in Lena. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Lena | - | Several rounds of heavy rain that moved across Oconto County caused flooding of fields and ditches near Lena, where an estimated three inches of rain fell. Runoff from the rainfall caused the Little Suamico River to overflow its banks south of Sobieski. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | - | A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust 3 miles NE of the town of Lena. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lena | - | Nickel size hail fell at Lena. The thunderstorm that produced the hail also brought winds of at least 50 mph an very heavy rainfall. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Lena | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiles Junction | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Stiles | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Spruce | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Oconto Falls | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Kelly Brook | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Klondike | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Cullen | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Brookside | 10.4 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 Lena | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q927620 | 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 1567968. 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.



