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Peshtigo, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Peshtigo City. It lies in ZIP code area 54157. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marinette West quadrangle. 3,420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Peshtigo within Marinette County

On record in Peshtigo

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

Peshtigo fell from 3,502 to 3,420 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
20103,502
20203,420-82 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Peshtigo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning63
Equipment and vehicle use36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks8
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Other causes2

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 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHERRY COKE
24 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPANTS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Peshtigo: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 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
Jackie Foster Inc.PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marinette Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Marinette Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nob Hill Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Park Point Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Peshtigo Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rade Macker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sandy Hill Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Trout Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peshtigo in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo$25,000A camper was tipped over and a 4 foot diameter tree blown down which crushed a van.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage throughout Peshtigo. One tree fell on a garage and another damaged a fence. The most concentrated tree damage was near Peshtigo High School and along Maple Street.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo$6,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near Peshtigo. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo$2,000no account filed
May 2025HailPeshtigo-Nickel size hail fell in Peshtigo. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2022HailPeshtigo-Nickel size hail fell near Peshtigo.
July 2021HailPeshtigo-Half dollar size hail fell near Peshtigo.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Peshtigo. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Peshtigo. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees near County Road VV in Peshtigo. Some of the trees took down power lines as they fell.
October 2014HailPeshtigo-Hail, as large as walnut size at times, fell for 8 minutes at Peshtigo, leaving the ground covered with hailstones 2 to 3 inches deep.
June 2012HailPeshtigo-Thunderstorms produced walnut size hail at Peshtigo.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines were knocked down across the entire county. The worst damage occurred in Peshtigo.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Peshtigo.
August 2009HailPeshtigo-Hail up to half dollar size was reported north of Peshtigo.
June 2007HailPeshtigo-At Highway 64 and Bagley Road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-Many trees down in Grover Township.
July 2006HailPeshtigo-no account filed
August 2006HailPeshtigo-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-no account filed
August 2005HailPeshtigo-no account filed
September 2004HailPeshtigo-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-no account filed
July 2000Tornado (F0)Peshtigo-no account filed
August 1999LightningPeshtigo-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-no account filed
March 1998HailPeshtigo-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-no account filed
September 1994Thunderstorm WindPeshtigo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Harmony4.8 miles10
May Corner5.4 miles10
Bagley Junction5.8 miles10
Wilcox6.0 miles8
Marinette7.0 miles9
Porterfield7.3 miles10
Rubys Corner8.6 miles9
Walsh8.7 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 PeshtigoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1017578The 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 1571243. 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.