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Merrillan, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Merrillan Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54754. It stands on South Fork Halls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Merrillan quadrangle. 562 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Merrillan within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Merrillan grew from 542 to 562 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
2010542
2020562+20 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Merrillan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
11 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUNLAP RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merrillan in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2006HailMerrillan$50,000no account filed
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Merrillan$10,000This EF2 tornado developed in the far northern part of Jackson County north of Merillan and quickly moved northeast into Clark County. Damage was limited to trees.
August 2006HailMerrillan$9,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$5,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$3,000Several large trees were blown down in Merrillan.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$2,500A tree was blown down onto a building and the power was out in the Merrillan area.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$2,000Trees were blown down across U.S. Highway 12 south of Merrillan.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$2,000Trees were blown down in Merrillan.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down in and around Merrillan.
May 2008HailMerrillan$1,500no account filed
June 2005HailMerrillan$1,250no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$1,000no account filed
June 2001HailMerrillan$800no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$400A couple of trees were blown down south of Merrillan near Garage Road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMerrillan$400no account filed
June 2014Flash FloodMerrillan-Runoff from heavy rain caused water to go over numerous roads across the eastern section of Jackson County.
May 2013Funnel CloudMerrillan-A funnel cloud was spotted northwest of Merrillan.
May 2013HailMerrillan-Quarter sized hail fell in Merrillan.
April 2010HailMerrillan-A trained spotter estimated three quarter inch hail in Merrillan.
September 2010Heavy RainMerrillan-The storm total rainfall amounted to 5.95 inches.
August 2009Heavy RainMerrillan-An observer measured 4.15 inches of rain during the preceding 24-hours.
July 2011HailMerrillan-no account filed
September 2010HailMerrillan-no account filed
April 2009HailMerrillan-no account filed
May 2008HailMerrillan-no account filed
October 2006HailMerrillan-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMerrillan-no account filed
June 1997HailMerrillan-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMerrillan-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
Wrightsville (historical)2.8 miles13
Alma Center3.8 miles13
Hatfield6.4 miles11
North Branch8.4 miles13
Winnebago Mission8.6 miles13
Clay (historical)9.3 miles11
Vaudreuil10.1 miles13
Hixton10.2 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 MerrillanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2563937The 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 1569372. 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.