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Newald, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ross town. It lies in ZIP code area 54511. The Survey maps it on the Newald quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.

Newald within Forest County

Population over time

2 figures

Newald fell from 95 to 70 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
201095
202070-25 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Newald between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
16 September 1998Debris and open burning12 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHWY O
8 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBIG MAC
7 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestVAN ZILE LAKE
1 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestPOPPLE
7 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National Forestnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burning8.5 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHUCK
13 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCEMETARY
11 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestTRAILER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Newald: 7 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
County Line Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highline Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Highline Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hillside Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Little Popple River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newald Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oldtime Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Popple River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ross Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
S Br Popple River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newald in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2016HailNewald-Penny to nickel size hail fell as a thunderstorm passed through Newald.
September 2002HailNewald-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNewald-no account filed
July 1999HailNewald-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forest 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
Popple River3.8 miles10
Cavour7.2 miles10
Argonne10.7 miles11
Laona12.1 miles9
Wisconsin Junction12.3 miles11
Blackwell Junction14.5 miles9
Hiles14.6 miles11
Armstrong Creek14.8 miles9

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 NewaldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9049791The 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 1580002. 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.