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Norwalk, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Norwalk Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54648. The Survey maps it on the Wilton quadrangle. 611 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Norwalk within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Norwalk fell from 638 to 611 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
2010638
2020611-27 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Norwalk between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 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 burning4
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
7 May 2018Debris and open burning8.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRIGGER FIRE
14 May 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources12
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources918
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1911
3 December 2020Debris and open burning1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Norwalk: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Schmitz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Smiths QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwalk in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2000Tornado (F1)Norwalk$50,000no account filed
August 2021Tornado (EF1)Norwalk$40,000An EF1 tornado touched down north of Norwalk where it destroyed a barn. The tornado then traveled east for about six miles before dissipating. Other than the barn, damage was limited to trees and crops.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindNorwalk$35,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNorwalk$20,000Just southwest of Norwalk, a semi and trailer were picked up and pushed about 75 yards.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNorwalk$15,000Trees were blown down in Norwalk. At least one tree landed on a house but only caused minimal damage. The shingles were blown off the roof of a restaurant.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNorwalk$13,000no account filed
August 2006HailNorwalk$1,000no account filed
July 2006HailNorwalk$800no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNorwalk$750no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindNorwalk$700no account filed
July 2014HailNorwalk-no account filed
August 2006HailNorwalk-no account filed
June 2001HailNorwalk-no account filed
July 1999HailNorwalk-no account filed
August 1998HailNorwalk-no account filed
June 1995HailNorwalk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Saint Marys4.1 miles11
Wilton5.1 miles11
Oil City5.8 miles11
Melvina8.2 miles13
Farmers Valley8.2 miles12
Jacksonville9.0 miles13
Scotts Junction (historical)9.6 miles12
Hoffman Corners10.2 miles13

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 NorwalkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q586003The 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 1570539. 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.