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Mauston, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mauston City. It lies in ZIP code area 53948. It sits by Onemile Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Mauston quadrangle. 4,347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Mauston within Juneau County

On record in Mauston

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mauston fell from 4,423 to 4,347 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
20104,423
20204,347-76 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Mauston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBORDER LINE
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJULY 5TH INTERSTATE
22 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEVERGREEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mauston in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 3 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2008FloodMauston$3,500,000High water caused problems in Elroy due to flooding along the Baraboo River and there were several mudslides. Homes along Lincoln, Lake, South Brooklyn, and Franklin streets were evacuated after the river broke its banks early Sundy afternoon, June 8th. About 16 families were displaced in Wonewoc as well. Mudslides began to occur along Highways 82 and 80.||Sections of the Elroy-Sparta State bicycle trail were also damaged and caused a closure. ||There was concern about high water in Mauston as well, especially along the Lemonweir River.
June 2008FloodMauston$2,800,000Evacuations were needed in many areas due to rising water levels. Numerous mudslides were also reported.
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Mauston$775,000An EF1 tornado developed just to the southwest of Mauston and tracked northeast before dissipating just west of the Wisconsin River south of Castle Lake Dam. In Mauston, the tornado caused roof damage to the hospital and a restaurant, blew windows out of several vehicles near the hospital, took down several stop lights, blew over parked semis, snapped power poles and downed several trees in a mobile home park that damaged numerous homes. In Veteran's Memorial Park, stands for the baseball field were overturned with some blown across the street and the scoreboard was ripped off its posts. A tree fell on the roof of an apartment complex damaging the roof and allowing water to leak into some units. Northeast of Mauston over rural parts of Juneau County, the damage was mainly limited to trees. The mayor of Mauston issued a disaster declaration.
June 2008FloodMauston$100,000Water was over numerous roads from 3 miles southwest of Mauston to 3 miles southeast of Mauston.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMauston$100,000no account filed
June 1999LightningMauston$100,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindMauston$80,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMauston$45,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMauston$38,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMauston$30,000Emergency manager reported downed trees and power outages.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMauston$25,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in and around Mauston. One tree landed on and damaged a garage. After the storm, about two-thirds of the city was without power.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMauston$25,000A barn was destroyed south of Mauston.
June 2000HailMauston$20,000no account filed
June 2000HailMauston$15,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMauston$12,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMauston$9,000no account filed
September 2000HailMauston$6,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMauston$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Mauston.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMauston$5,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMauston$4,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Mauston.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMauston$2,500no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMauston$2,000Trees were blown down near Mauston.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMauston$1,500no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMauston$1,500no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMauston$1,200no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMauston$1,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMauston$1,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMauston$750One tree was blown down on 50th street in Lemonweir Township.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMauston$750no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMauston$500no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMauston$500no account filed
May 2025HailMauston-The public reported hail ranging from quarter to half dollar sized in Mauston.
October 2023HailMauston-A volunteer observer reported penny sized hail near Mauston.
March 2016Heavy RainMauston-A total of 3.10 inches of rain fell in Mauston.
May 2016HailMauston-Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell in Mauston.
May 2017HailMauston-no account filed
June 2011HailMauston-no account filed
April 2008HailMauston-no account filed
April 2008HailMauston-no account filed
July 2008HailMauston-no account filed
April 2008HailMauston-no account filed
April 2004HailMauston-no account filed
June 2004Funnel CloudMauston-no account filed
September 2004HailMauston-no account filed
April 2002HailMauston-no account filed
April 2002HailMauston-no account filed
April 2002HailMauston-no account filed
April 2002HailMauston-no account filed
April 2002HailMauston-no account filed
July 1997HailMauston-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMauston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Lemonweir3.3 miles12
Lindina4.5 miles12
New Lisbon7.3 miles12
Orange Mill10.9 miles12
Elroy11.0 miles11
Lyndon Station11.1 miles16
Kelly11.8 miles12
Hustler11.8 miles13

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 MaustonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569592The 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 1569135. 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.