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Radisson, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Radisson Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54867. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Radisson quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Radisson within Sawyer County

Population over time

2 figures

Radisson grew from 241 to 273 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
2010241
2020273+32 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Radisson between 1994 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAJKA RD
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1998Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHELSING
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesENDICOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Radisson: 16 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Balczewski Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Balczewski Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Beaver Brook Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Birch Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crooked Rapids Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Edwards Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Endicott Road Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Endicott Road Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hemlock Spur Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radisson in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood. 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 2017Flash FloodRadisson$1,000County Highway H closed due to water over the road.
June 2017Flash FloodRadisson$1,000County Highway H at Beaver Brook Road closed due to flooding.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRadisson$1,000A large tree was blown down on Highway 70/27.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRadisson-A six inch diameter tree was down on the eastbound lane of Highway 70.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRadisson-A tree was down onto a power line leading to a fire.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRadisson-Multiple pine trees were uprooted near Radisson by the storm.
July 2020Flash FloodRadisson-Water was over portions of County Road H near the village of Radisson.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRadisson-Upwards of 60 to 80 trees were reported down with some on power lines leading to power outages.
August 2011Flash FloodRadisson-County Highway H was closed north of Radisson.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRadisson-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRadisson-Large trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2021HailRadisson-no account filed
August 2015HailRadisson-no account filed
June 2013HailRadisson-no account filed
July 2006HailRadisson-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRadisson-no account filed
April 1994HailRadisson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Couderay4.9 miles9
Ojibwa5.9 miles8
Weirgor6.0 miles8
Lemington7.0 miles9
Exeland7.1 miles8
New Post9.0 miles11
Meteor9.4 miles8
Yarnell10.9 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 RadissonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671264The 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 1572019. 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.