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Montreal, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Montreal City. It lies in ZIP code area 54550. The Survey maps it on the Ironwood quadrangle. 801 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.

Montreal within Iron County

On record in Montreal

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Montreal fell from 807 to 801 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
2010807
2020801-6 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Montreal between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 use12
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
15 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
28 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Montreal: 23 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Nickel. 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
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flood Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Peterson Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montreal in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindMontreal-Several trees were downed along State Highway 77 in Montreal.
July 2013HailMontreal-A thunderstorm dropped pea to quarter size hail. Wind gusts knocked down a 6 inch diameter tree.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMontreal-Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down numerous trees in Montreal and in the area Hundreds of homes and businesses lost power due to downed power lines.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMontreal-Several trees were blown down. The branch of a large maple tree went through the roof of a bungalow after the tree was struck by lightning. A large severe thunderstorm complex moved out of northeast Minnesota into northwest Wisconsin for the second morning in a row. Once again, damaging winds were the primary feature. Many trees and power lines were blown down, causing some structural damage and sending at least one person to the hospital with head injuries.
June 2014HailMontreal-no account filed
June 2014HailMontreal-no account filed
May 2007HailMontreal-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMontreal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Gile1.1 miles14
Germania1.3 miles14
Pence1.6 miles11
Orva1.8 miles14
Hoyt3.1 miles11
Hurley3.5 miles14
Iron Belt4.6 miles11
Kimball4.9 miles11

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 MontrealAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1529343The 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 1569683. 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.