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Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Croix Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 54024. The Survey maps it on the Saint Croix Dalles quadrangle. 2,208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Saint Croix Falls within Polk County

On record in Saint Croix Falls

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Croix Falls grew from 2,133 to 2,208 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
20102,133
20202,208+75 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Saint Croix Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 May 2019Fireworks1.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18D0124
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20D0111
3 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19G0107
10 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2004Arson/incendiarism25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources92

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Saint Croix Falls: 12 occurrences, 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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
Bryan Rock Products Inc Dresser JctStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Prospect Near OsceolaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near OsceolaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near St Croix FaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near St Croix FaCopperOccurrence
Centuria Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Centuria Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centuria Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centuria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deer Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Dresser3.7 miles24
Lamar3.8 miles22
Sand Lake5.2 miles22
Centuria5.4 miles22
Ubet7.0 miles22
Osceola7.1 miles24
Eureka Center7.1 miles16
Nye7.3 miles22

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 Saint Croix FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470469The 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 1572910. 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.