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Lewis, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clam Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 54837. The Survey maps it on the Frederic quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Lewis within Polk County

On record in Lewis

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

Lewis fell from 164 to 87 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
2010164
202087-77 (-47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Lewis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. 1 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSIREN NATIONAL.....
9 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Debris and open burning2.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources115TH
20 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Lewis: 18 occurrences, 8 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Nd Unnamed Prospect Near Clam FaCopperOccurrence
Nd Unnamed Prospect Near LewisCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Clam FaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near LewisCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near LewisCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near LewisCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Somers CreeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Somers CreeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Weiss LakeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Weiss LakeCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewis in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2012Flash FloodLewis$100,000Very heavy rainfall occurred across a large area of northern Polk County and caused road closures, road damage and washouts from the communities of Luck, Eureka, Laketown, West Sweden, Clam Falls, Frederic and Lewis. Based on road damage alone in the 7 towns, up to $100,000 in expected in damages.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLewis-A tree was blown down north of Lewis, on 110th street, just south of Highway 35.
May 2009HailLewis-Quarter size hail was reported by the public near Lewis.
August 2013HailLewis-no account filed
September 1998HailLewis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Frederic4.9 miles13
West Sweden5.0 miles13
Clam Falls6.0 miles13
Luck10.2 miles13
Indian Creek10.3 miles13
Atlas11.3 miles16
West Denmark11.3 miles16
Milltown13.9 miles16

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 LewisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6536201The 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 1567997. 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.