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.
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
Henry and Barbara Bierbauer Houselisted 2016
Population over time
3 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1870 | 1,221 | |
| 2010 | 2,554 | |
| 2020 | 1,748 | -806 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1921 USGS Mauston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Mauston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS New Lisbon North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
119 since 1992Regional 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 use | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | EVERGREEN |
| 11 August 2000 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BLACK HIGHWAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Tornado (F1) | New Lisbon | $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | New Lisbon | $55,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | New Lisbon | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | New Lisbon | $12,000 | Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile west of New Lisbon. |
| October 2006 | Hail | New Lisbon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F1) | New Lisbon | $7,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of New Lisbon. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $4,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near New Lisbon. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $2,500 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in New Lisbon. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $1,000 | Trees were blown down on County Road A between Hustler and New Lisbon. |
| June 2006 | Hail | New Lisbon | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $500 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $500 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | $250 | Very heavy rain and pea size hail occurred. |
| April 2026 | Flood | New 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 2025 | Flood | New 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 2024 | Flood | New 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 2024 | Flood | New 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 2020 | Heavy Rain | New Lisbon | - | A mesonet station in New Lisbon measured 9.54 inches of rain. |
| September 2018 | Flood | New Lisbon | - | Flooding along the Lemonweir River in New Lisbon that began in late August, ended in early September. |
| August 2018 | Flood | New 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 2008 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | New Lisbon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Mill | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Lone Rock | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Hustler | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Camp Douglas | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kelly | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Mauston | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Lindina | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cloverdale | 10.1 miles | 14 |
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 Lisbon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1569375 | 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 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.







