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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.

Pittsville within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Pittsville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010874
2020813-61 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

38 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY B FIRE
12 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPINE FIRE
22 August 2012Natural3.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTAG ALDER FIRE
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDEAD TREE
23 June 2006Smoking1.0 acresGreat Lakes AgencyBURNED SHOE
22 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017FloodPittsville$50,000An 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 1997Thunderstorm WindPittsville$40,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPittsville$1,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPittsville-Thunderstorm winds downed small trees in Pittsville. The time of this event is estimated based on radar data.
May 2012HailPittsville-Thunderstorms dropped penny size hail as they moved through Pittsville.
September 2012HailPittsville-Penny size hail fell at Pittsville.
October 2012HailPittsville-Pea to penny size hail fell for about 5 minutes in Pittsville.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPittsville-Thunderstorm winds, gusting to 60 mph, downed trees and power lines in Pittsville.
September 2010HailPittsville-Quarter size hail fell at Pittsville.
April 2006HailPittsville-no account filed
September 2006Funnel CloudPittsville-no account filed
June 2005HailPittsville-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPittsville-no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F0)Pittsville-no account filed
August 1998LightningPittsville-no account filed
March 1998HailPittsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Veedum3.3 miles13
Dexterville4.4 miles13
Bethel7.2 miles11
Arpin8.5 miles11
Walker8.6 miles8
Vesper9.0 miles8
Babcock9.5 miles13
Cranmoor9.9 miles13

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 PittsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570126The 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.