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Suring, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Suring Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. It stands on Peshtigo Brook. The Survey maps it on the Gillett quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Suring within Oconto County

Population over time

2 figures

Suring fell from 544 to 517 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
2010544
2020517-27 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Suring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning39
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 32 AND WILLOW RD. FIRE
26 July 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suring in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSuring$75,000no account filed
July 2025HailSuring-Quarter size hail fell near Suring.
May 2022HailSuring-Quarter size hail fell east of Suring.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSuring-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Suring.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSuring-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Suring.
June 2012HailSuring-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail and wind gusts around 50 mph at Suring.
June 2012HailSuring-Thunderstorms produced half dollar size hail at the Suring Waste Water Treatment Plant.
June 2006HailSuring-no account filed
May 2000HailSuring-no account filed
July 1997HailSuring-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Frostville2.5 miles9
Hayes2.7 miles6
Breed5.8 miles9
Hintz6.1 miles6
Logan6.2 miles9
Hickory Corners6.3 miles9
Gillett8.3 miles6
Underhill8.6 miles6

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 SuringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2695421The 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 1580561. 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.