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Seymour, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seymour town. It lies in ZIP code area 54703. It stands on Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eau Claire East quadrangle. 1,501 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Seymour within Eau Claire County

Population over time

2 figures

Seymour grew from 1,418 to 1,501 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
20101,418
20201,501+83 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Seymour between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3070
20 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSEVEN MILE LANDFILL FIRE
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSEYMOUR NIGHT FIRE
1 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Seymour: 7 producers, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. 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
Old Town Road Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bloomer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Brunswick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Chippewa County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Eau Claire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eau Claire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hallie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kopp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Litchfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit #7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eau Claire 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
Terrace Hill1.5 miles15
Altoona1.6 miles15
Eau Claire3.7 miles15
Putnam Heights4.3 miles15
Shawtown6.0 miles14
Union6.3 miles14
Fall Creek9.3 miles14
Brackett9.6 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 SeymourAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7459125The 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 1867666. 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.