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Port Edwards, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Port Edwards Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54469. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wisconsin Rapids South quadrangle. 1,762 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Port Edwards within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Port Edwards fell from 1,818 to 1,762 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
20101,818
20201,762-56 (-3%)

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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Port Edwards between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning47
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks6
Other causes4
Natural3

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
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOOD PLOT
6 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCKET
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPRYNE FIRE
23 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1832792
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Port Edwards: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Wood County OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Edwards in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 hail, 3 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
June 2007HailPort Edwards$45,000,000A supercell thunderstorm produced baseball and softball size hail in Port Edwards and Wisconsin Rapids. A 5.5 inch diameter hailstone that fell at Port Edwards was the second largest hailstone ever measured in Wisconsin. (The record largest hailstone in Wisconsin is 5.7 inches in diameter, which fell in Wausau on May 22, 1921.) Approximately 6,000 house and business roofs sustained at least minor damage. Over 500 vehicles were also damaged. Nine schools in the area sustained damage of $6.9 million alone. Total property damage was estimated at $45 million.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPort Edwards$100,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines along Highway 54 in Port Edwards.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPort Edwards$2,000no account filed
May 2024HailPort Edwards-Quarter size hail fell near Port Edwards.
April 2022HailPort Edwards-Quarter size hail fell in Port Edwards.
August 2020HailPort Edwards-Quarter size hail fell near Nekoosa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2020HailPort Edwards-Penny size hail fell near Nekoosa.
June 2020HailPort Edwards-Penny size hail fell near Port Edwards.
June 2020HailPort Edwards-Penny size hail fell at Highway 73 and Rangeline Road near Port Edwards.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Edwards-A thunderstorm produced a measured wind gust to 60 mph at Port Edwards.
August 2014HailPort Edwards-Penny size hail fell south of Port Edwards.
April 2008HailPort Edwards-no account filed
May 2008HailPort Edwards-no account filed
July 2008HailPort Edwards-no account filed
August 1995HailPort Edwards-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
Nekoosa Junction1.6 miles8
Nekoosa3.4 miles8
Wisconsin Rapids3.4 miles8
Lake Wazeecha5.9 miles8
Walker6.5 miles8
Biron6.8 miles8
Ceex Haci7.0 miles8
Eight Corners8.7 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 Port EdwardsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671448The 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 1571796. 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.