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Omro, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Omro City. It lies in ZIP code area 54963. The Survey maps it on the Omro quadrangle. 3,652 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Omro within Winnebago County

On record in Omro

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Omro grew from 3,517 to 3,652 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
20103,517
20203,652+135 (+4%)

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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Omro between 2006 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
13 May 2019Smoking10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources150
18 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources133
7 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBRADLEY WF
24 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources495

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Omro: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kalata QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omro in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindOmro2 hurt, $4,500,000no account filed
May 2000HailOmro$10,400,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOmro$1,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Omro. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees, power lines, and snapped power poles in Omro. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Omro. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and flipped a semi west northwest of Omro. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted numerous trees between Omro and Waukau. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-A thunderstorm wind gust of 72 mph was measured in Omro.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Omro. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Omro and blew sheet metal off a score board at Omro High School. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires between Omro and Winneconne.
July 2010Heavy RainOmro-Several periods of heavy rain across southern Winnebago County caused street flooding in Omro and Oshkosh. Streets in Omro were flooded, and a foot of water flowed across State Highway 21 and Industrial Road and nearly 2 feet of water flowed across 20th Avenue in the Westhaven area of Oshkosh.
July 2010Flash FloodOmro-Very heavy rainfall in a short amount of time resulted in a foot of moving water across Highway 21 near Industrial Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph and uprooted trees around Omro.
July 2008HailOmro-no account filed
October 2004HailOmro-no account filed
June 2003Funnel CloudOmro-no account filed
April 2002HailOmro-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOmro-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOmro-no account filed
May 1995HailOmro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Island Park3.3 miles8
Harbor Springs3.5 miles8
Waukau3.8 miles10
Rivermoor3.8 miles8
Reighmoor3.9 miles8
Winneconne5.2 miles8
Zion5.3 miles9
Eureka5.7 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 OmroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q921862The 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 1570814. 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.