Nekoosa, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nekoosa City. It lies in ZIP code area 54457. The Survey maps it on the Nekoosa quadrangle. 2,449 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.
On record in Nekoosa
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
- Wakeley's Tavernlisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresNekoosa fell from 2,580 to 2,449 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 | 2,580 | |
| 2020 | 2,449 | -131 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:48000
- 1967 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Nekoosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
175 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Nekoosa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ROCKET |
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PRYNE FIRE |
| 28 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LYNN HILL FIRE |
| 23 September 1998 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nekoosa in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Flood | Nekoosa | $1,000 | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused minor street flooding in Nekoosa. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Nekoosa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Nickel size hail fell in Nekoosa. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Quarter size hail fell in Nekoosa. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches in Nekoosa. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Quarter size hail fell southeast of Nekoosa. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Nickel to quarter size hail fell near Nekoosa. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Nickel size hail fell near Nekoosa. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees in Nekoosa and knocked out power. The storms also dropped pea size hail. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous 5 to 8 inch diameter tree branches. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Nekoosa | - | A total of 4.00 inches of rain fell at Nekoosa during the evening of September 6th. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and knocked out power as the storms moved through Nekoosa. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Nekoosa | - | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding in Nekoosa where water was up to a car door on Cedar Street and Wood Avenue. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorms produced winds downed trees and power lines, and dropped dime size hail, in Nekoosa. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | A Skywarn spotter observed nickel size hail as thunderstorms moved through Nekoosa. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Quarter size hail fell in Nekoosa. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | The public reported that trees were blown down near the town of Nekoosa. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in Nekoosa. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | A few trees down in the area. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Flood | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nekoosa Junction | 1.9 miles | 8 | |
| Port Edwards | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Ceex Haci | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Walker | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Wisconsin Rapids | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Cranmoor | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Wazeecha | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Biron | 10.1 miles | 8 |
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 Nekoosa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1569409 | 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 1570148. 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.




