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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.

Oostburg within Sheboygan County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Oostburg 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,887
20203,056+169 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

7 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2402
13 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1847
24 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1653
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1119
24 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1298
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources985
19 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources897

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Flash FloodOostburg$150,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOostburg$100,000Barn 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 2002Thunderstorm WindOostburg$10,000no account filed
August 2020Heavy RainOostburg-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 2010Thunderstorm WindOostburg-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 2018HailOostburg-no account filed
August 2014HailOostburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Idlewood Beach2.1 miles8
Gibbsville2.7 miles10
Cedar Grove4.0 miles8
Ourtown5.3 miles10
Kennedys Corners (historical)5.4 miles10
Hingham6.4 miles9
Indian Meadows6.9 miles9
Sheboygan Falls7.4 miles10

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 OostburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301271The 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.