Pittsville, Wisconsin
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pittsville City. It lies in ZIP code area 54466. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Dexter quadrangle. 813 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPittsville fell from 874 to 813 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 | 874 | |
| 2020 | 813 | -61 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Pittsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lake Dexter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Pittsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | COUNTY B FIRE |
| 12 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PINE FIRE |
| 22 August 2012 | Natural | 3.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TAG ALDER FIRE |
| 19 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DEAD TREE |
| 23 June 2006 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Great Lakes Agency | BURNED SHOE |
| 22 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsville in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Flood | Pittsville | $50,000 | An ice jam on the Yellow River caused flooding of basements and the ground floors of homes near the river, mainly from Pittsville to Dexterville. Property damage totals included in this report are only a rough estimate. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsville | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed small trees in Pittsville. The time of this event is estimated based on radar data. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Pittsville | - | Thunderstorms dropped penny size hail as they moved through Pittsville. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Pittsville | - | Penny size hail fell at Pittsville. |
| October 2012 | Hail | Pittsville | - | Pea to penny size hail fell for about 5 minutes in Pittsville. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsville | - | Thunderstorm winds, gusting to 60 mph, downed trees and power lines in Pittsville. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Pittsville | - | Quarter size hail fell at Pittsville. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pittsville | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Pittsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Pittsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsville | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Pittsville | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Pittsville | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Pittsville | - | 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.
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 Pittsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1570126 | 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 1571567. 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.






