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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.

Oconto Falls within Oconto County

Population over time

2 figures

Oconto 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,891
20202,957+66 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

109 since 1992

Regional 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 burning39
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 22 FIRE 4
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 22 FIRE 1
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 22 FIRE 3
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 22 FIRE 5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls$1,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls$1,000no account filed
October 2023HailOconto Falls-Quarter size hail fell in Oconto Falls.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Oconto Falls. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Oconto Falls.
July 2006HailOconto Falls-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls-no account filed
July 2000Flash FloodOconto Falls-no account filed
July 2000FloodOconto Falls-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOconto Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Stiles5.1 miles8
Stiles Junction5.1 miles8
Spruce5.5 miles8
Morgan6.1 miles8
Kelly Brook7.1 miles8
Lena7.4 miles8
Sampson7.9 miles8
Abrams7.9 miles8

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 FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569548The 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.