Oostburg, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Oostburg Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53070. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Grove quadrangle. 3,056 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
On record in Oostburg
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
- Byron (schooner) Shipwrecklisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresOostburg grew from 2,887 to 3,056 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 | 2,887 | |
| 2020 | 3,056 | +169 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sheboygan Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Cedar Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Sheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oostburg between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2402 |
| 13 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1847 |
| 24 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1653 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1119 |
| 24 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1298 |
| 26 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 985 |
| 19 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 897 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oostburg in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Oostburg | $150,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oostburg | $100,000 | Barn reported down with horses inside northeast of Oostburg. A roof antenna and weather station south of Sheboygan were damaged by the wind gusts. Tree and power-line damage around the city of Sheboygan where about 12,000 customers were without power. City work crews in Sheboygan had about 200 locations across the city where tree debris had to be cleaned up. Clean-up and overtime costs were unknown, but were probably substantial. Several homes had trees leaning onto roofs, and and least one vehicle was damaged when a tree fell on it. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oostburg | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Heavy Rain | Oostburg | - | A quick 2 to 3 inches of rain led to street flooding in Oostburg and Cedar Grove. There was standing water on I-43 off ramps near Cedar Grove. Up to a foot of standing water on some city streets and some basement flooding. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oostburg | - | County Sheriff deputies reported tree damage due to thunderstorm wind gusts along a path from Oostburg to the city of Sheboygan. The Sheboygan C-MAN observation site at the harbor recorded a 49 knot (56 mph) wind gust at 5 pm CDT. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Oostburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Oostburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idlewood Beach | 2.1 miles | 8 | |
| Gibbsville | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cedar Grove | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Ourtown | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Kennedys Corners (historical) | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hingham | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Indian Meadows | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Sheboygan Falls | 7.4 miles | 10 |
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 Oostburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3301271 | 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 1570842. 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.




