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Ogema, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Ogema town. It lies in ZIP code area 54459. It stands on North Branch Holmes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ogema quadrangle. 188 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,585 feet above sea level.

Ogema within Price County

On record in Ogema

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Ogema grew from 186 to 188 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
2010186
2020188+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Ogema between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 4 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural4
Smoking4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBJORKLUND RD

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Ogema: 12 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them 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
Bjorklund Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Douglas Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Douglas Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fryklund Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hill-Prentice Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holmes Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holmes Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Larkin Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Larkin Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Levitt Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogema in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindOgema-Numerous trees were down on powerlines leading to several fires.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOgema-A few trees were downed near the intersection of County Road O and Highway 13.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOgema-Large tree branches were blown down.
June 2005HailOgema-Trees were also blown down.
July 2023HailOgema-no account filed
May 2017HailOgema-no account filed
June 2014HailOgema-no account filed
June 2007HailOgema-no account filed
August 2007HailOgema-no account filed
April 2002HailOgema-no account filed
June 1999HailOgema-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOgema-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Prentice7.1 miles10
Pennington7.9 miles10
Spirit9.8 miles9
Worcester11.0 miles10
Brantwood12.7 miles8
Cranberry Lake13.8 miles10
Catawba13.8 miles8
Kennan16.5 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 OgemaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7079988The 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 1580050. 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.