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Minocqua, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Minocqua town. It lies in ZIP code area 54548. It lies near Kline Island. The Survey maps it on the Hazelhurst quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.

Minocqua within Oneida County

On record in Minocqua

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Minocqua fell from 451 to 411 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
2010451
2020411-40 (-9%)

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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Minocqua between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism17
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Other causes4
Fireworks4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BAY FIRE
15 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Minocqua: 10 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Arnett Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Blue Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Carrol Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clawson Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curtis Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazelhurst Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hungry Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minocqua in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2016LightningMinocqua1 killedA 66-year-old man was struck by lightning outside his residence on Tanglewood Court in Minocqua. He was first taken to Howard Young Medical Center, then transported to St. Claire's Hospital in Weston. From there, he was taken to a burn center in Madison where he died from his injuries.
July 1997HailMinocqua$300,000no account filed
May 2001Tornado (F1)Minocqua$15,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMinocqua$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed large trees in the Minocqua area. Some of the trees landed on buildings. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMinocqua$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailMinocqua$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailMinocqua$5,000no account filed
June 1997HailMinocqua$2,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMinocqua$2,000no account filed
April 2024HailMinocqua-Penny size hail fell in Minocqua.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Minocqua. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-Thunderstorm winds downed 4 to 6 inch diameter trees.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Minocqua.
September 2014HailMinocqua-Thunderstorms produced hail up to quarter size in Minocqua.
June 2012Heavy RainMinocqua-Heavy rain caused street flooding near the Oneida and Vilas County line. Weather observers reported one to three inches of rain in less than three hours.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and knocked out power in the Minocqua area.
July 2000LightningMinocqua-Garage destroyed and vehicle damaged
July 2007HailMinocqua-no account filed
July 2006LightningMinocqua-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-no account filed
September 2002HailMinocqua-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMinocqua-no account filed
May 1998HailMinocqua-no account filed
May 1998HailMinocqua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Woodruff1.8 miles12
Rantz2.9 miles12
Hazelhurst4.5 miles12
Sunflower5.9 miles12
Lake Tomahawk7.4 miles12
Goodnow12.2 miles12
McNaughton13.0 miles12
Harshaw14.5 miles12

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 MinocquaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6868956The 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 1569580. 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.