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Niagara, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Niagara City. It lies in ZIP code area 54151. The Survey maps it on the Norway quadrangle. 1,602 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Niagara within Marinette County

Population over time

2 figures

Niagara fell from 1,624 to 1,602 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
20101,624
20201,602-22 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Niagara between 1992 and 2020, burning about 409 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 2011Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFINKLER FIRE
17 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBREITUNG TOWNSHIP FD 2019-44 - 2019
16 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020
11 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH FIRE

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Niagara: 22 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Niagara Greenstone DepositStone, DimensionOccurrence
Caspian Const Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fayas Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Feeder Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jackie Foster, Inc. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marinette County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morisini Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Niagara Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Niagara Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Quiet Valley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niagara in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNiagara$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed large trees around Niagara. A 3 foot diameter maple tree crashed down on a Niagara house, causing severe structural damage to its roof.
May 2015Flash FloodNiagara$10,000Heavy rain, from multiple storms, partially washed out Brook Street and left standing water on Highway 141. The time of this event is estimated. A COOP observer in Norway, Michigan, less than 5 miles east of Niagara, reported a storm total of 2.2 inches of rain, including 1.1 inches in one hour.
August 2020HailNiagara-Nickel size hail fell near Niagara. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2020HailNiagara-Half dollar size hail fell near Niagara. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2015HailNiagara-A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail on Highway 141 near Niagara.
July 2012HailNiagara-Quarter size hail fell near Niagara though most of the hailstones were pea to marble size.
May 2008HailNiagara-A spotter reported nickel size hail coving the ground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNiagara-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindNiagara-no account filed
April 2002FloodNiagara-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindNiagara-no account filed
September 2000FloodNiagara-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Pembine9.4 miles11
Kremlin (historical)11.5 miles11
Dunbar12.5 miles10
Beecher12.6 miles11
Beecher Lake14.0 miles11
White Pine Haven17.8 miles11
Amberg18.5 miles11
Goodman21.3 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 NiagaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569510The 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 1570272. 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.