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Melrose, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Melrose Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54642. It stands on Douglas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Melrose quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Melrose within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Melrose grew from 503 to 544 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
2010503
2020544+41 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Melrose between 1994 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018017
27 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2003Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melrose in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMelrose$500,000no account filed
September 1994Tornado (F1)Melrose$250,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMelrose$40,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMelrose$35,000The attached garage was blown off a house northwest of Melrose and several trees were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMelrose$32,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMelrose$15,000Several trees were blown down across the western and southern sections of Jackson County. The trees went down across approximately 30 roads.
April 1994HailMelrose$5,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMelrose$4,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Melrose.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMelrose$3,000Trees were either snapped off or uprooted south of Melrose.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMelrose$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Melrose.
July 2009HailMelrose$3,000no account filed
May 2013FloodMelrose-Stetzer Road in the Town of Melrose was closed starting in April until May 16th due to flooding and high water on the Black River and Germann Valley Creek.
April 2013FloodMelrose-Stetzer Road in the Town of Melrose was closed from April 8th into May due to flooding and high water on the Black River and Germann Valley Creek.
July 2009HailMelrose-no account filed
May 2000HailMelrose-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindMelrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Rogneys (historical)5.4 miles12
Irving6.6 miles11
North Bend6.8 miles13
Franklin8.7 miles12
Disco9.1 miles13
Fall Hall Glen9.5 miles11
Shamrock10.7 miles11
Charter Oak Mills (historical)11.6 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 MelroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2105329The 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 1569326. 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.