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Mountain, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mountain town. It lies in ZIP code area 54149. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountain quadrangle. 289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

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Mountain within Oconto County

On record in Mountain

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain fell from 363 to 289 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
2010363
2020289-74 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Fireworks12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 August 2008Natural4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Fireworksunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHWY 32 LATE NIGHT
2 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestRIVERVIEW
2 August 1998Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHAY BALE
11 August 2008Natural4.3 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCRAIGS
10 August 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mountain: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Green Lake Diorite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmer Hubbard Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hubbard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 20 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2007Tornado (EF2)Mountain2 hurt, $10,500,000The long-track tornado moved from Langlade Co. into Oconto Co. about 8 miles west of Mountain at 4:58 PM CDT. The tornado reached a width of three-quarters of a mile wide as it flattened over 7000 acres of trees in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (DI 27, DOD4). The tornado destroyed or heavily damaged 12 homes (DI 4, DOD 11), with 14 others sustaining damage of varying degrees. Nearly all of the damaged homes were either manufactured homes or vacation cottages. Two people sustained minor injuries as they sought shelter in a bedroom of their home. The tornado dissipated about 10 miles east-northeast of Lakewood, near the Marinette County line, at 5:18 PM CDT. The tornado was rated EF2 in Langlade Co., with estimated winds of 125 to 135 mph, and an average path length of 1000 yards.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMountain$300,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in and around Mountain.
July 2023HailMountain-Ping pong size hail fell near Mountain. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2022HailMountain-Ping pong size hail fell in Mountain.
May 2022HailMountain-Penny size hail fell in Crooked Lake.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds uprooted and snapped trees near Mountain. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds uprooted and snapped trees near Mountain. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2021HailMountain-Penny size hail fell near Mountain.
April 2021HailMountain-Quarter size hail fell near Mountain.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Mountain. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2019HailMountain-Quarter size hail fell just northwest of Mountain. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and overturned a trailer near Mountain. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2018HailMountain-Quarter size hail fell in Mountain.
July 2018HailMountain-Quarter size hail fell near Mountain.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted more than 50 trees west of Mountain on County Highway W.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in Mountain.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted numerous trees near Crooked Lake.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and large branches around Mountain.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Crooked Lake, northwest of Mountain.
May 2011HailMountain-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail as they passed through Mountain. Time of the event was estimated.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Mountain.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMountain-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Mountain.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMountain-Trees and large branches down in the town of Mountain.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMountain-Strong winds from thunderstorms knocked down trees along Highway 64 near Mountain.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMountain-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMountain-no account filed
August 2005HailMountain-no account filed
September 2004HailMountain-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMountain-no account filed
June 2000HailMountain-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMountain-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMountain-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Bonita4.6 miles9
Logan7.8 miles9
Breed8.1 miles9
Lakewood8.4 miles12
Townsend11.6 miles12
Hayes13.0 miles6
Suring13.9 miles6
Frostville14.7 miles9

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q13422857The 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 1579932. 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.