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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.

Nekoosa within Wood County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Nekoosa 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,580
20202,449-131 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

175 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning40
Equipment and vehicle use29
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Natural4
Fireworks2

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
6 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCKET
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPRYNE FIRE
28 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLYNN HILL FIRE
23 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNekoosa$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNekoosa$5,000no account filed
June 2017FloodNekoosa$1,000Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused minor street flooding in Nekoosa.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNekoosa$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Nekoosa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2024HailNekoosa-Nickel size hail fell in Nekoosa.
April 2022HailNekoosa-Quarter size hail fell in Nekoosa.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches in Nekoosa.
May 2017HailNekoosa-Quarter size hail fell southeast of Nekoosa.
May 2017HailNekoosa-Nickel to quarter size hail fell near Nekoosa.
April 2017HailNekoosa-Nickel size hail fell near Nekoosa.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees in Nekoosa and knocked out power. The storms also dropped pea size hail.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous 5 to 8 inch diameter tree branches.
September 2015Heavy RainNekoosa-A total of 4.00 inches of rain fell at Nekoosa during the evening of September 6th.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and knocked out power as the storms moved through Nekoosa.
August 2014Flash FloodNekoosa-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding in Nekoosa where water was up to a car door on Cedar Street and Wood Avenue.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorms produced winds downed trees and power lines, and dropped dime size hail, in Nekoosa.
May 2012HailNekoosa-A Skywarn spotter observed nickel size hail as thunderstorms moved through Nekoosa.
May 2011HailNekoosa-Quarter size hail fell in Nekoosa.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-The public reported that trees were blown down near the town of Nekoosa.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in Nekoosa.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-A few trees down in the area.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-no account filed
September 2000HailNekoosa-no account filed
July 1999FloodNekoosa-no account filed
May 1998HailNekoosa-no account filed
June 1998HailNekoosa-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNekoosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Nekoosa Junction1.9 miles8
Port Edwards3.4 miles8
Ceex Haci3.8 miles8
Walker6.4 miles8
Wisconsin Rapids6.7 miles8
Cranmoor6.8 miles13
Lake Wazeecha8.8 miles8
Biron10.1 miles8

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 NekoosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569409The 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.