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Nichols, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Nichols Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54152. The Survey maps it on the Nichols quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Nichols within Outagamie County

Population over time

2 figures

Nichols grew from 273 to 290 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
2010273
2020290+17 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Nichols between 1999 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources05
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8
16 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018009
28 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources192
31 October 1999Recreation and ceremony65 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Nichols: 9 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Black Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mapleview Road Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nichols QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Briarton Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Briarton Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elm Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Herman Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Herman Creek Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Klement Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kamineski Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nichols in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2022Thunderstorm WindNichols-Thunderstorm winds downed a barn in Nichols. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNichols-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Nichols.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNichols-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in Nichols.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Nichols-A tornado formed at 3:40 PM CDT and moved northeast, entering Shawano County 1.4 miles north of Nichols at 3:43 PM CDT. The tornado removed some shingles and siding off a house (DI 2, DOD 2) before strengthening as it continued into Shawano County for another 1.8 miles. The tornado dissipated at 3:45 PM CDT.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Cicero4.1 miles9
Leeman5.0 miles8
Black Creek5.9 miles8
Seymour7.8 miles9
Binghamton9.4 miles8
Isaar9.5 miles9
Shiocton10.2 miles8
Center Valley11.1 miles8

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 NicholsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2189368The 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 1570277. 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.