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Sheboygan, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sheboygan City. It lies in ZIP code area 53081. It stands on Sheboygan River. The Survey maps it on the Sheboygan North quadrangle. 49,929 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sheboygan within Sheboygan County

On record in Sheboygan

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 12 of 26 shown

Every listing in Sheboygan County

Population over time

2 figures

Sheboygan grew from 49,288 to 49,929 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
201049,288
202049,929+641 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Sheboygan between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3762
12 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3283
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1469
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1310
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1518
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1713
3 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1066
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1371

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheboygan in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 4 heavy rain. 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 1998Flash FloodSheboygan$40,000,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$40,000no account filed
August 1998LightningSheboygan$25,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodSheboygan$20,000A trained spotter reported 3 feet of water over South Business Drive between Riverdale Avenue and Stahl Road in the town of Wilson 5 miles south-southwest of Sheboygan. Another trained spotter reported street flooding on the south side of the city of Sheboygan near the intersection of Weeden Creek road and 10th Street. The flooding damaged the contents of flooded basements and washed out gravel shoulders of roads.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$10,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSheboygan$10,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$6,000Scattered tree limbs down in Sheboygan including on a large van. A few photos provided.
August 2024Flash FloodSheboygan$5,000Street flooding on the south side of Sheboygan, including removed manhole covers from flooding sewers. Pictures of streets and yards flooded on the south side.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$5,000A barn door was blown off and items were blown out of the barn.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$5,000Winds from a severe thunderstorm lifted a 36 by 24 foot roof off from a warehouse in Sheboygan.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$4,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$3,000Power poles broken and 3 inch diameter branches down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$2,000A large tree snapped off and landing on power lines.
May 2020FloodSheboygan$2,000The Sheboygan River reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.07 feet the morning of May 18th. About 3 miles west of Sheboygan Airport, Woodland Road is flooded and closed between Rio Road and Willow Road due to the flooding of the Sheboygan River. Sections of Alpine Road and Meadowlark Road in the Sheboygan Falls area are flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect Kiwanis and Esslingen Parks in Sheboygan. Other roads and low lying areas are flooded in closed due to areal flooding from the several inches of rain that had fallen.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$2,000no account filed
September 2018Heavy RainSheboygan$1,000Street flooding in Sheboygan especially on and near 14th street from Geele Ave. to Indiana Ave.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$1,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$1,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSheboygan$1,000no account filed
July 1997LightningSheboygan$500no account filed
March 2026HailSheboygan-Pictured provided of one inch hail.
May 2007HailSheboygan-Large hail the size of pennys to quarters covered the ground white just northwest of the city limits of Sheboygan. No damage was noted. As the storm eventually moved through the city of Sheboygan it dumped heavy rains of 0.81 inches in about 45 minutes. Water accumulated on some roads to a depth of 3 to 5 inches.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSheboygan-Measured by the Fox TV-6 school network site at North High School.
April 2018HailSheboygan-no account filed
March 2017HailSheboygan-no account filed
July 2014HailSheboygan-no account filed
May 2014HailSheboygan-no account filed
June 2006Funnel CloudSheboygan-no account filed
May 2004Heavy RainSheboygan-no account filed
November 2003Heavy RainSheboygan-no account filed
July 2003Heavy RainSheboygan-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindSheboygan-no account filed
April 2002HailSheboygan-no account filed
July 2002FloodSheboygan-no account filed
May 2001HailSheboygan-no account filed
August 2001FloodSheboygan-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSheboygan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Indian Meadows2.9 miles9
Erdman3.6 miles9
Kohler3.7 miles10
Mosel4.0 miles9
Sheboygan Falls5.3 miles10
Ourtown6.8 miles10
Haven7.0 miles9
Howards Grove8.0 miles9

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 SheboyganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984834The 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 1573989. 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.

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.