Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Soldiers Grove Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54655. It stands on Baker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Readstown quadrangle. 552 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Soldiers Grove within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Soldiers Grove fell from 592 to 552 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	592
2020	552	-40 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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.

1924 USGS Gays Mills quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Gays Mills quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Gays Mills quadrangle1:62500
1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Readstown quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Richland Center quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Soldiers Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 2 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 burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 61 FIRE
24 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	B AND C FIRE
14 June 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2020011
5 May 2014	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SOLDIERS GROVE
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018013
9 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

30 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soldiers Grove in 30 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 17 flood, 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Flood	Soldiers Grove	$2,200,000	The Kickapoo River at Soldiers Grove established the second highest all-time crest of record when it reached 19.35 feet on August 20. Flood stage is 13 feet.\|\|River flooding in many towns was extensive. Over 400 people applied for FEMA assistance.
June 2008	Flood	Soldiers Grove	$2,000,000	The Kickapoo River at Soldiers Grove reached the second highest crest on record of 21.21 feet around 5 a.m. CDT on June 9. The all-time record crest of 21.63 feet was established on July 22, 1951. Flood stage is 13.0 feet. About 50 to 60 homes were flooded. The village park and Highway 131 bridge was badly damaged.
August 2018	Flood	Soldiers Grove	$780,000	Runoff from heavy rains caused extensive flooding to occur along the Kickapoo River that resulted in numerous road closings. State Highway 131 was closed in several locations as it runs parallel to the river. Other road closures included: State Highway 179 in Steuben, State Highway 171 in Gays Mills, State Highway 60 near Wauzeka, County Highway B north of Gays Mills, County Highway C in Soldiers Grove, County Highway S south of Bell Center and County Highway W between Bell Center and Steuben. One water rescue had to be performed when a elderly man drove his vehicle into flood waters.
August 2018	Flood	Soldiers Grove	$450,000	Runoff from heavy rain created historic flooding along the Kickapoo River in Soldiers Grove. The river crested at its second highest level at 21.06 feet, which was over 8 feet above the flood stage. The flooding ended just after midnight on September 1st and no entry will be made in September for this site.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Soldiers Grove	$50,000	Numerous roads and state highways closed, mostly in the northeast section of the county. Nursing home evacuated in Soldiers Grove. Numerous residents evacuated in Gays Mills and Soldiers Grove.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Soldiers Grove	$25,000	Trees were snapped off and uprooted in Soldiers Grove. Some of these trees landed on houses and vehicles.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Soldiers Grove	$20,000	A building was damaged at the intersection of Highway 61 and Tavern Road.
October 2006	Hail	Soldiers Grove	$12,000	no account filed
August 2007	Flash Flood	Soldiers Grove	$10,000	Two feet of water was over Highway 61 south of town from flooding and even closed in Soldiers Grove.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Soldiers Grove	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in Soldiers Grove.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Soldiers Grove	$1,500	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Soldiers Grove	$1,000	no account filed
March 2019	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested over a foot above the flood stage at 14.65 feet on March 16th.
July 2019	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested over a foot above the flood stage at 14.25 feet on the 20th.
May 2018	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 13.83 feet on the 4th.
September 2018	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 17.21 feet on September 5th.
July 2017	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested almost five feet above the flood stage at 17.75 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested less than a foot over the flood stage at 13.84 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested almost five feet above the flood stage at 17.9 feet.
December 2015	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove. The river crested at 13.84 feet, which was less than a foot over the flood stage.
June 2013	Heavy Rain	Soldiers Grove	-	The COOP observer in Soldiers Grove reported 3.93 inches of rain.
June 2013	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks twice in Soldiers Grove. The first event occurred from the early morning of the 23rd to the morning of the 24th with a crest around a foot over flood stage at 14.06 feet. The second event occurred from the afternoon of the 24th to the afternoon of the 26th with a crest just under a foot above flood stage at 13.92 feet.
March 2011	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	The combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Kickapoo River at Soldiers Grove out of its banks. The river exceeded the flood stage from the 23rd into the 25th. The river crested less than a foot over the flood stage at 13.36 feet.
June 2010	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River right to flood stage in Soldiers Grove.
August 2010	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	Locally heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Soldiers Grove from August 14th through the 17th. The river exceeded the flood stage by over a foot and a half, cresting at 14.68 feet.
July 2010	Flood	Soldiers Grove	-	United States Department of Agricultural official reported a small acreage of potatoes were destroyed by flash flooding in northeast Crawford County.
June 2004	Hail	Soldiers Grove	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Soldiers Grove	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Soldiers Grove	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Soldiers Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Yankeetown	1.6 miles	10
Montgomeryville	3.2 miles	10
Pine Knob	3.4 miles	10
North Clayton	3.6 miles	10
Johnstown	4.8 miles	10
Rolling Ground	4.9 miles	10
Towerville	6.2 miles	10
Gays Mills	6.5 miles	10

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 Soldiers Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2574546	The 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 1574364. 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.