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New Lisbon, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lisbon town. It lies in ZIP code area 53950. It stands on Little Lemonweir River. The Survey maps it on the New Lisbon North quadrangle. 1,748 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

New Lisbon within Juneau County

On record in New Lisbon

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

3 figures

New Lisbon grew from 1,221 to 1,748 between 1870 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
18701,221
20102,554
20201,748-806 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of New Lisbon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. 3 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 use43
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEVERGREEN
11 August 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK HIGHWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lisbon in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 17 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 2 tornado. 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
June 2000Tornado (F1)New Lisbon$500,000no account filed
May 2000HailNew Lisbon$55,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$50,000no account filed
August 2006HailNew Lisbon$25,000no account filed
August 2025HailNew Lisbon$12,000Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile west of New Lisbon.
October 2006HailNew Lisbon$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$10,000no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F1)New Lisbon$7,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of New Lisbon.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$4,000Trees and power lines were blown down near New Lisbon.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$2,500no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$2,000Trees were blown down in New Lisbon.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$2,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$1,500no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$1,000Trees were blown down on County Road A between Hustler and New Lisbon.
June 2006HailNew Lisbon$500no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$500no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$500no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$250Very heavy rain and pea size hail occurred.
April 2026FloodNew Lisbon-Heavy rain due to repeated rounds of thunderstorms during the middle of April resulted in the Lemonweir River at New Lisbon reaching flood stage during the evening hours on April 14th. The river crested in major flood stage and near the flood of record during the evening hours on April 16th before falling below flood stage during the afternoon on April 21st.
July 2025FloodNew Lisbon-Ongoing river flooding on the Lemonwier River at New Lisbon that began in June persisted into July where the river crested at 10.81 feet in minor flood stage during the morning hours on July 1st. The river eventually fell below flood stage on July 3rd during the afternoon.
July 2024FloodNew Lisbon-Significant rainfall throughout June and early July pushed the Lemonwier River at New Lisbon into flood stage on July 4th. The river stage crested during the late morning on July 6th in minor flood stage at 10.96 ft.
June 2024FloodNew Lisbon-Significant rainfall later into June pushed the Lemonweir River at New Lisbon into flood stage late on June 25th. The river stage crested during the morning on June 27th in minor flood stage at 10.28 ft.
August 2020Heavy RainNew Lisbon-A mesonet station in New Lisbon measured 9.54 inches of rain.
September 2018FloodNew Lisbon-Flooding along the Lemonweir River in New Lisbon that began in late August, ended in early September.
August 2018FloodNew Lisbon-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Lemonweir River out of its banks in New Lisbon. The river crested just under two feet above the flood stage at 11.85 feet.
July 2008HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
July 2008HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
June 2004HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
April 2002HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
August 2001HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
April 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Orange Mill3.9 miles12
Lone Rock5.2 miles12
Hustler5.6 miles13
Camp Douglas6.4 miles13
Kelly7.0 miles12
Mauston7.3 miles12
Lindina8.3 miles12
Cloverdale10.1 miles14

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 New LisbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569375The 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 1570225. 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.