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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.

Northport within Waupaca County

Population over time

2 figures

Northport 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.

YearPeople Change
2010491
2020459-32 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

In the county-history sources

1,087 words on this township

History 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.

Read the whole chapter on Mukwa Town.

Fires near this place

97 since 1994

Regional 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use19
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY O FIRE
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMERGER FIRE
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOPPYS ROCK
15 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A Matz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
B Duch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Murphy Construction CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New London PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Lathrop Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
R Lathrop Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sasse Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNorthport$30,000Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a barn and tore the roof from an outbuilding near Sugar Bush.
March 2016LightningNorthport$20,000Lightning caused a fire that destroyed a barn west of New London. The damage total is an estimate.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNorthport-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees around Highway 54 near Northport. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
June 2013HailNorthport-Thunderstorms produced hail up to quarter size between Royalton and Northport.

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Carmel2.5 miles7
Ostrander2.6 miles7
Shaw Landing3.1 miles8
New London3.1 miles7
Royalton3.7 miles7
Nowell (historical)5.5 miles7
Little Wolf (historical)5.8 miles7
Manawa7.7 miles7

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 NorthportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12834102The 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.