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Stevens Point, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Stevens Point City. It lies in ZIP code area 54481. The Survey maps it on the Stevens Point quadrangle. 25,666 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Stevens Point within Portage County

On record in Stevens Point

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 14 shown

Every listing in Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Stevens Point fell from 26,717 to 25,666 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
201026,717
202025,666-1,051 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Stevens Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use47
Debris and open burning39
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks5
Other causes4
Natural1
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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR #1
8 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevens Point in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindStevens Point$20,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindStevens Point$5,000no account filed
July 1996HailStevens Point-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindStevens Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Park Ridge1.5 miles9
Whiting2.2 miles7
Casimir3.6 miles9
Rocky Run3.8 miles7
Plover4.9 miles7
Jordan5.1 miles9
Mill Creek Community5.6 miles7
Stockton5.8 miles7

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 Stevens PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q991209The 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 1574878. 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.