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Nelsonville, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nelsonville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54407. The Survey maps it on the Amherst quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.

Nelsonville within Portage County

On record in Nelsonville

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

Nelsonville grew from 155 to 158 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
2010155
2020158+3 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Nelsonville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 229 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning39
Equipment and vehicle use24
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks3
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes2
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
19 September 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWARD ROAD FIRE
18 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY RR FIRE #1
12 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY RR FIRE #2
9 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOUNTAIN GROVE HOLDOVER
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR FIRE #9
7 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPAVELSKI BALER FIRE
5 August 2012Smoking2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nelsonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Mengel Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelsonville in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNelsonville-Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous trees near the town of New Hope. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNelsonville-A wet microburst from a thunderstorm produced winds to at least 65 mph. About a half dozen trees were uprooted and another half dozen heavily damaged.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNelsonville-Thunderstorm winds downed several one-foot diameter trees north of Amherst.
July 2010HailNelsonville-Penny size hail fell for ten minutes north of Amherst.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Lake Emily (historical)1.8 miles6
Amherst Junction1.8 miles6
New Hope2.5 miles7
Amherst3.3 miles6
Fancher4.6 miles6
Garfield4.7 miles7
Peru6.3 miles7
Custer6.3 miles7

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 NelsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2566263The 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 1570168. 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.