Rewey, Wisconsin
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rewey Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53580. The Survey maps it on the Rewey quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRewey fell from 292 to 258 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 | 292 | |
| 2020 | 258 | -34 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1902 USGS Mineral Point quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Rewey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rewey between 2018 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 7042001 |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 704201 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018045 |
| 6 December 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20230 |
| 19 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20217 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 63 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Rewey: 39 past producers, 19 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negro Jim Mine | Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Upper Mississippi Valley Prospect | Zinc, Copper, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Bickford Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Ebenezer Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Dell Needham Various Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hardy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Johnston Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Knight Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Clayton Mine | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite | |
| Coker No. 1 Mine | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite |
Storms near this place
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rewey in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Hail | Rewey | $4,440,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Rewey | $4,440,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Rewey | $300,000 | Damage was mainly to a barn lean-to which was distributed through a field behind the facility. Another barn had roofing damage going in the opposite direction on the same grounds. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Rewey | $300,000 | Tornado damaged a wood supply store outbuilding. Frame was toe-nailed into the baseboards, so lowered the estimated wind speeds based upon this. Debris lofted into farm fields with a couple of other farm outbuildings damaged on this path. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | $25,000 | Trees and power lines down in the Rewey and Linden areas. Some uprooted trees. Some structural damage to farm outbuildings. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | $25,000 | Three sheds had roof damage with one shed losing the entire roof. Debris blown up to 300 yards into field. Many large trees uprooted or snapped. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | $25,000 | Powerful downburst thundestorm winds gusting to around 52 knots (60 mph) toppled large trees. Seveal power-lines came down with tree debris. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Rewey | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Rewey | $5,000 | Flash flooding of some streets in Dodgeville and Mineral Point and numerous roads flooded throughout the county. Mud and rocks on a portion of highway 130/133 in the far northern portion of the county. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Rewey | $3,000 | Fifty to seventy-five oak trees of 1.5-2.0 feet in diameter downed. Tops of many other trees were snapped off. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | $500 | One tree down on a road. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | - | Iowa County dispatch reported downed trees near Rewey and Mineral Point. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Rewey | - | Widespread flooding of lowland and agricultural land including some roads. County officials sandbagged and pumped water out of areas in the Village of Arena, which saved 14 homes from flooding. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | - | A couple of utility poles were pushed over by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | - | Tree limbs down. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Rewey | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Rewey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Rewey | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Rewey | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rewey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mifflin | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Linden | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cobb | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Edmund | 11.1 miles | 12 | |
| Mineral Point | 11.5 miles | 14 | |
| Highland | 14.1 miles | 10 | |
| Dodgeville | 16.2 miles | 14 | |
| Waldwick | 18.9 miles | 13 |
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 Rewey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2619132 | 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 1572225. 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.






