Oconto Falls, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oconto Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 54154. It stands on Coopman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oconto Falls South quadrangle. 2,957 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresOconto Falls grew from 2,891 to 2,957 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 | 2,891 | |
| 2020 | 2,957 | +66 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Oconto Falls quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1974 USGS Oconto Falls South quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
109 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Oconto Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 4 |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 1 |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 3 |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 5 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oconto Falls in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Hail | Oconto Falls | - | Quarter size hail fell in Oconto Falls. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Oconto Falls. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Oconto Falls. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Oconto Falls | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Oconto Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Flood | Oconto Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oconto Falls | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiles | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Stiles Junction | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Spruce | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Morgan | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kelly Brook | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Lena | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Sampson | 7.9 miles | 8 | |
| Abrams | 7.9 miles | 8 |
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 Oconto Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1569548 | 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 1570743. 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.
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.



