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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.

Lena within Oconto County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lena 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.

YearPeople Change
2010564
2020537-27 (-5%)

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

156 since 1993

Regional 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 use52
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Natural1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 22 FIRE 4
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 22 FIRE 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Groveland Mine & PlantIronProducer
Military Road Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmer Hubbard Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gene Sager PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spruce Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Zimmerman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLena$30,000Thunderstorm winds caused a barn to collapse and tore the roof from another.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLena-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 2020HailLena-Penny size hail fell in Lena.
September 2020HailLena-Penny size hail fell near Lena.
July 2017HailLena-Penny size hail fell in Lena.
December 2015Heavy RainLena-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 2013Thunderstorm WindLena-A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust 3 miles NE of the town of Lena.
July 2008HailLena-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 2008HailLena-no account filed
May 2006HailLena-no account filed
July 2004HailLena-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLena-no account filed
June 1999HailLena-no account filed
March 1998HailLena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Stiles Junction4.7 miles8
Stiles6.2 miles8
Spruce6.3 miles8
Oconto Falls7.4 miles8
Kelly Brook9.0 miles8
Klondike10.1 miles10
Cullen10.3 miles8
Brookside10.4 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 LenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q927620The 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.