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Taylor, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Springfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54659. It lies near Jonahs Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Taylor quadrangle. 484 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Taylor within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Taylor grew from 476 to 484 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
2010476
2020484+8 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Taylor between 2001 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
11 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5051820
18 May 2018Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018025
9 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019017
9 April 2005Debris and open burning1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Taylor: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blair Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Taylor PitSilicaProducer
Blair Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blair Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
K Olson Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rich Tuff Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindTaylor1 killed, 4 hurt, $80,000no account filed
July 2017Flash FloodTaylor$303,000After heavy rains of 4 to 6 inches, flash flooding occurred across the southwest sections of Jackson County. French Creek went out of its banks sending water over County Road X southeast of Taylor. The townships of Springfield, Franklin and North Bend were hit the hardest with several roads either washed out or damaged from the flooding. Two homes sustained minor damage during the flooding.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindTaylor$100,000no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F1)Taylor$75,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTaylor$15,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTaylor$5,000Several large trees and branches were blown down in Taylor.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindTaylor$5,000Trees were blown down and power outages occurred in Taylor.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTaylor$5,000Many trees and power poles were blown down across western Jackson County. Tree damage was reported in and around the cities of Taylor, York, and Northfield. This caused power outages to many towns and rural customers. Also, 3.90 inches of rain was measured in the city of Taylor between 5:25 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. CST.
June 2004Tornado (F1)Taylor$5,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTaylor$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2006HailTaylor$2,500no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTaylor$2,000Several trees were blown down in Taylor.
June 2001HailTaylor$1,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTaylor$500Law enforcement reported trees down.
April 2017HailTaylor-Quarter sized hail was reported in Taylor.
July 2015HailTaylor-Golf ball sized hail fell northeast of Taylor.
June 2014Heavy RainTaylor-In Taylor, 4 inches of rain fell.
June 2014Flash FloodTaylor-Runoff from heavy rain caused several small streams to go out of their banks around Taylor.
July 2010FloodTaylor-Law enforcement reported several roads closed due to water over roadways in southern Jackson County.
September 2010Heavy RainTaylor-Total rainfall from the storm was 6.65 inches.
August 2009Heavy RainTaylor-An observer measured 5.06 inches of rain during the preceding 24-hours.
June 2017HailTaylor-no account filed
July 2015HailTaylor-no account filed
July 2014HailTaylor-no account filed
April 2009HailTaylor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Sechlerville5.9 miles13
Disco7.1 miles13
Hixton7.2 miles13
Franklin7.5 miles12
York9.0 miles13
Rogneys (historical)9.4 miles12
Northfield9.6 miles13
North Branch10.8 miles13

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 TaylorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1850913The 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 1575268. 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.