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Oakdale, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oakdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 54660. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakdale quadrangle. 302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Oakdale within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakdale grew from 297 to 302 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
2010297
2020302+5 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 burning59
Equipment and vehicle use52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural4
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMM 46
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources52 MILEMARKER
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLYING WHEELS #2
25 August 2003Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oakdale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Jacobs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakdale in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2000HailOakdale$250,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOakdale$200,000no account filed
August 2006HailOakdale$35,000no account filed
August 2006HailOakdale$30,000no account filed
August 2009LightningOakdale$25,000The Oakdale Credit Union was damaged from a fire that apparently was sparked by a lightning strike.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindOakdale$7,000Large tree branches were blown down which caused siding and roof damage in Oakdale.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOakdale$1,200no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOakdale$750no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindOakdale$300no account filed
June 2018HailOakdale-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Oakdale.
April 2011Funnel CloudOakdale-A possible funnel cloud was sighted three miles southwest of Oakdale.
June 2008HailOakdale-Nickel sized hail was covering the ground.
June 2008HailOakdale-Pea to penny sized hail covered the ground near Oakdale.
May 2022HailOakdale-no account filed
August 2014HailOakdale-no account filed
September 2005HailOakdale-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOakdale-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOakdale-no account filed
April 1994HailOakdale-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
Wyeville4.7 miles11
Shennington5.7 miles10
Clifton5.7 miles13
Tomah6.6 miles13
Valley Junction6.7 miles11
North Tomah7.9 miles14
Jacksonville9.3 miles13
Tunnel City10.3 miles14

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 OakdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671317The 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 1570692. 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.