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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.

Rewey within Iowa County

Population over time

2 figures

Rewey 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.

YearPeople Change
2010292
2020258-34 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7042001
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources704201
18 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018045
6 December 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20230
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20217

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Negro Jim MineLead, Barium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerGalena
Upper Mississippi Valley ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Bickford MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Ebenezer MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Dell Needham Various QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hardy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Knight QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clayton MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Coker No. 1 MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006HailRewey$4,440,000no account filed
April 2006HailRewey$4,440,000no account filed
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Rewey$300,000Damage 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 2023Tornado (EF1)Rewey$300,000Tornado 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 2022Thunderstorm WindRewey$25,000Trees and power lines down in the Rewey and Linden areas. Some uprooted trees. Some structural damage to farm outbuildings.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRewey$25,000Three 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 2007Thunderstorm WindRewey$25,000Powerful downburst thundestorm winds gusting to around 52 knots (60 mph) toppled large trees. Seveal power-lines came down with tree debris.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRewey$25,000no account filed
July 1997HailRewey$10,000no account filed
September 2019Flash FloodRewey$5,000Flash 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 2014Tornado (EF1)Rewey$3,000Fifty to seventy-five oak trees of 1.5-2.0 feet in diameter downed. Tops of many other trees were snapped off.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindRewey$2,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRewey$500One tree down on a road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRewey-Iowa County dispatch reported downed trees near Rewey and Mineral Point.
February 2018FloodRewey-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 2011Thunderstorm WindRewey-A couple of utility poles were pushed over by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRewey-Tree limbs down.
July 2017HailRewey-no account filed
May 2008HailRewey-no account filed
June 2008HailRewey-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRewey-no account filed
May 2000HailRewey-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRewey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Mifflin2.9 miles13
Linden8.3 miles12
Cobb9.3 miles12
Edmund11.1 miles12
Mineral Point11.5 miles14
Highland14.1 miles10
Dodgeville16.2 miles14
Waldwick18.9 miles13

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 ReweyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2619132The 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.