Northport, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Mukwa town. It lies in ZIP code area 54961. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northport quadrangle. 459 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresNorthport fell from 491 to 459 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 491 | |
| 2020 | 459 | -32 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Weyauwega quadrangle1:48000
- 1969 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,087 words on this townshipHistory of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 names this settlement in its chapter on Mukwa Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
James Smiley, to whom we are under many obligations, is a hale, hospitable gentleman, living quietly in his pleasant home near Northport. He took a prominent part in our County affairs at an early day, and enjoys telling about being taken to jail because he refused to give up the books and papers in his office to those who he thought had no legal right to them.
Passage source: History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
97 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Northport between 1994 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY O FIRE |
| 5 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MERGER FIRE |
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | POPPYS ROCK |
| 15 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Northport: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Matz Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| B Duch Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Murphy Construction Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| New London Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| R Lathrop Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| R Lathrop Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sasse Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a barn and tore the roof from an outbuilding near Sugar Bush. |
| March 2016 | Lightning | Northport | $20,000 | Lightning caused a fire that destroyed a barn west of New London. The damage total is an estimate. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees around Highway 54 near Northport. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Northport | - | Thunderstorms produced hail up to quarter size between Royalton and Northport. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel | 2.5 miles | 7 | |
| Ostrander | 2.6 miles | 7 | |
| Shaw Landing | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| New London | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Royalton | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| Nowell (historical) | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Little Wolf (historical) | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Manawa | 7.7 miles | 7 |
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 Northport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q12834102 | 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 1570529. 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.




