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Poplar, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Poplar Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54864. The Survey maps it on the Poplar quadrangle. 629 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Poplar within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Poplar grew from 603 to 629 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
2010603
2020629+26 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Poplar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
8 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAUTIO FIRE
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSKUNK FIRE
23 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOWER FIRE
12 July 1998Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTENNIS COURT
17 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPETERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Poplar: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Copper, Zinc, Nickel, Silver, Gold, Copper. 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
Amnicon Falls Station QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineNickel, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Martinson Clay & Gravel PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stupac PitStoneProducer
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineCopper, ZincOccurrence
North WisconsinCopperUnknownCopper
Unnamed Prospect Near Lakeside CeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Lakeside CemetaryCopper, ZincOccurrence
Anthony Jacksino PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Berg Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPoplar-A few trees were knocked down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPoplar-A large tree about 24 inches in diameter was blown down onto a fence.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPoplar-Several structures were damaged. Shingles were peeled off and soffits were uplifted.
July 2006HailPoplar-The hail fell for 5 minutes.
July 2021HailPoplar-no account filed
July 2011HailPoplar-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPoplar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Wentworth2.3 miles8
Dobie4.0 miles8
Maple4.2 miles12
Amnicon Falls5.0 miles8
Middle River5.5 miles8
Rockmont5.8 miles8
Hines6.4 miles8
Hawthorne6.5 miles8

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 PoplarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2680773The 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 1571768. 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.