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.
Population over time
2 figuresPort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,818 | |
| 2020 | 1,762 | -56 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:48000
- 1967 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Wisconsin Rapids South quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
183 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FOOD PLOT |
| 6 September 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ROCKET |
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PRYNE FIRE |
| 23 September 1998 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1832792 |
| 16 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood County Operations | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Hail | Port Edwards | $45,000,000 | A 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Edwards | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines along Highway 54 in Port Edwards. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Edwards | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Quarter size hail fell near Port Edwards. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Quarter size hail fell in Port Edwards. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Quarter size hail fell near Nekoosa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Penny size hail fell near Nekoosa. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Penny size hail fell near Port Edwards. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Penny size hail fell at Highway 73 and Rangeline Road near Port Edwards. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Edwards | - | A thunderstorm produced a measured wind gust to 60 mph at Port Edwards. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | Penny size hail fell south of Port Edwards. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Port Edwards | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nekoosa Junction | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Nekoosa | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Wisconsin Rapids | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Lake Wazeecha | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Walker | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Biron | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Ceex Haci | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Eight Corners | 8.7 miles | 8 |
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 Edwards | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671448 | 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 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.




