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Ridgeland, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ridgeland Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54763. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeland quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Ridgeland within Dunn County

Population over time

2 figures

Ridgeland fell from 273 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
2010273
2020258-15 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeland between 2002 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources603019
3 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1000006
26 May 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1000012
25 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1000010
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources421019

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ridgeland: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Little Otter Creek Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ridgeland Sandstone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hay River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Hay River Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay River Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay River Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lester Vergin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ridgeland Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ridgeland Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Washburn Farm Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dunn County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeland in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 9 hail, 5 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindRidgeland-Several trees were blown down in Ridgeland.
August 2012HailRidgeland-Quarter size hail, and strong winds caused damage to both corn, and soy bean crops southwest of Ridgeland, Wisconsin. The corn and soy beans were completely stripped and flattened for a five mile long, and 1.5 mile wide path.
August 2005HailRidgeland-Quarter sized hail fell in Section 1 of New Haven Township.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRidgeland-Few trees down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRidgeland-Few trees felled.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRidgeland-Trees blown down. Large Barn lost one of its sides. Estimated windspeed. Wind damage also reported in Boyceville and Sand Creek.
July 2016HailRidgeland-no account filed
May 2013HailRidgeland-no account filed
May 2004HailRidgeland-no account filed
June 2004HailRidgeland-no account filed
July 2004HailRidgeland-no account filed
July 2002HailRidgeland-no account filed
August 1997HailRidgeland-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindRidgeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunn 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
Baxter7.2 miles7
Wheeler11.0 miles7
Sand Creek11.4 miles7
Connorsville11.6 miles12
Norton13.3 miles7
Boyceville13.5 miles12
Tainter Lake15.0 miles12
Downing16.6 miles12

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 RidgelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2349198The 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 1572302. 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.