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Polonia, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sharon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54423. The Survey maps it on the Polonia quadrangle. 565 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Polonia within Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Polonia grew from 526 to 565 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
2010526
2020565+39 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Polonia between 1992 and 2019, burning about 103 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning51
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY RR FIRE #2
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR #4
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR FIRE #5
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR #3
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR #2
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR FIRE #6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Polonia: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Charneski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gosh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mengel Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Polonia in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindPolonia-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Stockton. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2013HailPolonia-Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail that fell in Polonia.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Ellis1.8 miles7
Little Waupon1.9 miles7
North Star3.3 miles7
Custer4.2 miles7
Jordan4.9 miles9
Stockton5.0 miles7
Torun5.9 miles9
Garfield6.3 miles7

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 PoloniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7225932The 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 1571745. 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.