Plum City, Wisconsin
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 54761. It lies near Rush Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Plum City quadrangle. 596 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPlum City fell from 599 to 596 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 | 599 | |
| 2020 | 596 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1935 USGS Arkansaw quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS Arkansaw quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Arkansaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Plum City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Plum City in 2018, burning under an 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201831 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Plum City: 11 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Coulee Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Devils Gate Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| J. Dettling Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Maple Ridge Limestone Deposit #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Maple Ridge Limestone Deposit #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Maple Ridge Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Maple Ridge Sandstone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Papnode Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Plum City Limestone Deposit #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
13 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plum City in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plum City | $200,000 | A mesocyclone originated in Pierce County and caused widespread downburst damage across a 1.5 mile wide area. It knocked down many hundreds of trees, and partially removed the roof off of one house. The mesocyclone continued into Pepin County, where it continued to produce wind damage and then a tornado (see separate entries for Pepin County). |
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Plum City | - | Cocorahs station WI-PC-31 Plum City 2.1 NNW 72 hour total of 5.36 inches. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Plum City | - | The broadcast media relayed a report through NWS chat of estimated hail size up to 2 inches. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plum City | - | A large tree was blown down near Nugget Park. |
| July 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Plum City | - | A brief tornado touched down on the north end of Nugget Lake, knocking down trees. There was also downburst damage near the tornado (see separate entry for the wind damage). |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Plum City | - | Several areas around Plum City, Wisconsin, had water over the roads for several hours. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Plum City | - | A trained spotter measured 5.50 inches of rainfall in a four hour period. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plum City | - | Few trees down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plum City | - | Trees toppled. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Plum City | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Plum City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Plum City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Plum City | - | 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 Plum City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3301413 | 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 1571686. 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.









