Strum, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Strum Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54770. It stands on Carters Creek. The Survey maps it on the Strum quadrangle. 1,076 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStrum fell from 1,114 to 1,076 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 | 1,114 | |
| 2020 | 1,076 | -38 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1927 USGS Strum quadrangle1:62500
- 1930 USGS Strum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Strum quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Strum between 2019 and 2020, burning under an 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202024 |
| 5 March 2020 | Other causes | under an acre | St. Croix Wetland Management District | RED CEDAR TRAILER FIRE |
| 29 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 98 |
| 15 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202012 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 34 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Strum: 21 past producers, 13 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eleva Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| A Ellwood Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Adams Creek Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| D Anderson Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| D Miland Shale Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Dale Olson Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dennis Ulberg Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Drangstreet Sandstone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| E Brixen Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Eleva Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strum in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $5,000 | Emergency management reported a large tree toppled onto a house in Strum. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Strum | $5,000 | Wind gusts to 50 mph were also observed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $5,000 | Severe thunderstorms spun 3 tornadoes, dumped dime size hail and created damaging winds over northwest Wisconsin. A tornado damaged the roof of an inn and uprooted several trees just southwest of Dairyland (Douglas county). A second tornado tracked along a 4 mile path near Person Lake, 9 miles west northwest of Wascott (Douglas county) causing nearly $250,000 in damage to property, trees and power lines. The force of the tornado lifted a large paddleboat out of Person Lake and hurled it 50 feet resulting in its destruction. A third tornado briefly touched down near a Boy Scout camp on Bear Lake, 3 miles northwest of Haugen in Barron county damaging a number of trees. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Strum | $2,000 | Runoff from heavy rain pushed a small creek out of its banks with the flood waters going over County Road D north of Strum. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Strum | $1,500 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Strum | - | The public reported quarter sized hail near Strum. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Strum | - | Pea to quarter size hail covered the ground in Strum. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Strum | - | Heavy rain produced standing water that covered parts of County Highways D and OO south of Strum and County Highway B and Call Road south of Osseo. The roads were closed until the water receded. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strum | - | Scattered severe thunderstorms moved through the southern half of Wisconsin and generated damaging winds and large hail. For west-central Wisconsin it was the first severe weather of the season. Three-quarter inch hail fell just south of Berlin (Green Lake County) and southwest of Omro (Winnebago County). Hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter fell just east of Monroe Center (Adams County), but did no damage. Another powerful storm generated spotter-estimated winds gusts to 65 mph at Strum (Trempeauleau County). As the severe storms moved east they dumped hail up to mothball-size in Wauwatosa (Milwaukee County). |
| May 2017 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Strum | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Strum | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eleva | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasantville | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Elk Creek | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Osseo | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hale | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Russell | 9.5 miles | 12 | |
| Pigeon Falls | 12.9 miles | 13 | |
| Whitehall | 13.2 miles | 12 |
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 Strum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q385807 | 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 1574988. 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.






