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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.

Plum City within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Plum 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.

YearPeople Change
2010599
2020596-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

1 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
21 October 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201831

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Coulee Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Devils Gate Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
J. Dettling Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maple Ridge Limestone Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Maple Ridge Limestone Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Maple Ridge Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maple Ridge Sandstone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Papnode QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plum City Limestone Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPlum City$200,000A 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 2025Heavy RainPlum City-Cocorahs station WI-PC-31 Plum City 2.1 NNW 72 hour total of 5.36 inches.
August 2023HailPlum City-The broadcast media relayed a report through NWS chat of estimated hail size up to 2 inches.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPlum City-A large tree was blown down near Nugget Park.
July 2016Tornado (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 2010Flash FloodPlum City-Several areas around Plum City, Wisconsin, had water over the roads for several hours.
August 2009Heavy RainPlum City-A trained spotter measured 5.50 inches of rainfall in a four hour period.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindPlum City-Few trees down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPlum City-Trees toppled.
June 2025HailPlum City-no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudPlum City-no account filed
June 2001HailPlum City-no account filed
June 2001HailPlum City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Ono3.8 miles15
Exile5.0 miles13
Nerike5.6 miles13
Lund6.2 miles13
Rock Elm7.5 miles13
Waverly7.7 miles15
Maiden Rock7.8 miles15
Salem8.8 miles15

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301413The 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.