Steuben, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Steuben Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54657. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steuben quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Steuben within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Steuben fell from 131 to 122 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	131
2020	122	-9 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1926 USGS Wauzeka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Wauzeka quadrangle1:62500
1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Steuben quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Richland Center quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Steuben between 1992 and 2019, burning about 367 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR RIDGE
10 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	STEUBEN HOLLOW
6 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	8.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.9 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	9.9 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SCHMIDT RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Steuben: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Plum Creek Copper Mine	Copper	Occurrence
Plum Creek Copper Mine	Copper	Unknown
Posey Hollow Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Walker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

30 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steuben in 30 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 21 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Flood	Steuben	$2,000,000	The Kickapoo River at Steuben crested at a record level of 19.15 feet around 2 a.m. CDT on June 10. The previous record crest of 18.0 feet occurred on July 3, 1978. Flood stage is 12.0 feet.
August 2007	Flood	Steuben	$150,000	The Kickapoo River at Steuben established the second highest all-time crest of record when it reached 16.89 feet on August 20. Flood stage is 12 feet.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Steuben	$10,000	A small tornado damaged trees along its path in southern Crawford County between Wauzeka and Steuben.
July 2019	Flood	Steuben	$1,000	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested almost two feet above the flood stage at 13.81 feet on the 22nd.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Steuben	$1,000	Locally heavy rain from slow moving thunderstorms produced some minor mud slides that blocked culverts and pushed some dirt over roads.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Steuben	$1,000	Large trees were knocked down across central parts of the county.
August 2021	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks near Steuben. The river crested over a foot above the flood stage at 13.18 feet on the 12th.
June 2021	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Stueben. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 12.73 feet on the 27th.
March 2019	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested almost two feet above the flood stage at 13.69 feet on March 17th.
October 2019	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 12.45 feet.
September 2019	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 12.63 feet on the 13th.
September 2019	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 12.44 feet on the 24th.
May 2018	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested over a foot above the flood stage at 13.48 feet on the 5th.
September 2018	Flood	Steuben	-	Flooding along the Kickapoo River in Steuben began in late August and with another round of heavy rain on September 3rd, continued until the 11th. The river crested over three feet above the flood stage at 15.41 feet on September 6th.
August 2018	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain created historic flooding along the Kickapoo River in Steuben. The river established a new crest of record at 19.84 feet, which was over 7 feet above the flood stage. The flooding continued into early September.
June 2017	Hail	Steuben	-	Half dollar sized hail fell in Steuben.
July 2017	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested almost four feet above the flood stage at 15.98 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks near Steuben. The river crested around a foot above the flood stage at 12.97 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks near Steuben. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 16.17 feet.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Steuben	-	A mesonet reporting station in Steuben measured 5.61 inches of rain.
August 2016	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 12.65 feet.
December 2015	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested at 12.71 feet, which was less than a foot over the flood stage.
June 2013	Heavy Rain	Steuben	-	The COOP observer near Stueben reported 6.47 inches of rain.
June 2013	Flood	Steuben	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben. The river crested over two feet above the flood stage at 14.19 feet.
March 2011	Flood	Steuben	-	The combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Kickapoo River at Stueben out of its banks. The river exceeded the flood stage from the 23rd into the 28th. The river crested less than a foot over the flood stage at 12.51 feet.
June 2011	Flood	Steuben	-	Locally heavy rains across Crawford and Vernon Counties pushed the Kickapoo River at Stueben out of its banks from the 21st into the 22nd. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 12.24 feet during the evening of the 21st.
August 2010	Flood	Steuben	-	Locally heavy rains pushed the Kickapoo River out of its banks in Steuben from August 16th through the 19th. The river exceeded the flood stage by almost a foot and a half, cresting at 13.4 feet.
July 2009	Hail	Steuben	-	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Steuben	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Steuben	-	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
Barnum	2.8 miles	10
Boydtown	5.7 miles	10
Petersburg	6.4 miles	10
Plugtown	6.5 miles	10
Wauzeka	6.7 miles	10
Easter Rock	7.6 miles	10
Bell Center	7.8 miles	10
Seneca	7.8 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 Steuben	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3300965	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 1574872. 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.