Melvina, Wisconsin
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54619. It lies near Halls Valley. The Survey maps it on the Melvina quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMelvina fell from 104 to 93 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 | 104 | |
| 2020 | 93 | -11 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1909 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Melvina quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Melvina: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schmitz Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Smiths Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sullivan Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melvina in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Melvina | $1,350,000 | Mudslides forced the closure of some township roads. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Melvina | $5,000 | The roof was blown off a barn. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Melvina | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Melvina | - | A rainfall report of 3.70 was received from the Melvina area. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Melvina | - | In Melvina, 8.66 inches of rain fell. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Melvina | - | An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Melvina. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Melvina | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Melvina | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Melvina | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashton | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Marys | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Portland | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Leon | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Farmers Valley | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Norwalk | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Sparta | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Oil City | 10.5 miles | 11 |
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 Melvina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3156124 | 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 1569329. 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.
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.







