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Roberts, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Roberts Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54023. The Survey maps it on the Roberts quadrangle. 1,919 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Roberts within St. Croix County

Population over time

2 figures

Roberts grew from 1,651 to 1,919 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
20101,651
20201,919+268 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Roberts between 2005 and 2020, burning about 275 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20-4331
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190057
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources80
9 April 2005Debris and open burning260 acresSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictGAME UNLIMITED
23 April 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDAY AFTER FIRE
16 April 2010Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGAME UNLIMITED
16 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20-1345

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Roberts: 11 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Agronomics Inc. Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Badlands Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Badlands Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Boundary Road Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
County Trunk N Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
G & M Stapleton Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
G Emholtz Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hammond Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John Christianson Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Croix County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roberts in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindRoberts$2,700,000no account filed
August 2010LightningRoberts$40,000A lightning bolt struck a home east of Hudson, Wisconsin and caused significant damage to the structure as a natural gas line ruptured and caused a gas fire in the home.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRoberts$25,000A barn was destroyed south of Roberts.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindRoberts$1,000A large tree was snapped near its base, west of Roberts. Several smaller tree limbs were also blown down around the same area. This is the continuation of the strong winds that occurred in the Hudson area.
April 2019Flash FloodRoberts-Several inches of rain caused a driveway to wash out north of River Falls.
June 2013Flash FloodRoberts-A high water rescue occurred due to flood waters near Interstate 94, south of Roberts, near exit 10.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRoberts-Several large trees were blown down along Highway 12, east of Hudson.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRoberts-A few trees were blown down near Roberts.
September 2006Tornado (F0)Roberts-Brief tornado touched down in farm field. No damage reported.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRoberts-Trees were downed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRoberts-Power lines were downed.
June 2005Funnel CloudRoberts-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud that abruptly dissipated a few minutes later.
August 2005HailRoberts-Golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 94 and Highway 65.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRoberts-Numerous trees down.
June 1998HailRoberts-Quarter to golfball size hail pummeled Badlands Golf course
July 2023HailRoberts-no account filed
July 2023HailRoberts-no account filed
May 2022HailRoberts-no account filed
August 2009HailRoberts-no account filed
July 2008HailRoberts-no account filed
August 2006HailRoberts-no account filed
August 2006HailRoberts-no account filed
August 2006HailRoberts-no account filed
April 2002HailRoberts-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Croix 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
Boardman6.1 miles14
Burkhardt Station6.2 miles14
Hammond6.4 miles11
Burkhardt6.4 miles14
Sono Junction6.5 miles12
Glover8.2 miles12
Northline8.4 miles12
Erin Corner9.1 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 RobertsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301370The 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 1581705. 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.