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Tony, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Dewey town. It lies in ZIP code area 54563. The Survey maps it on the Tony quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Tony within Rusk County

Population over time

2 figures

Tony fell from 113 to 105 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
2010113
2020105-8 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Tony between 1992 and 2019, burning about 138 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY HIGHWAY X
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDAM ROAD FIRE
30 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCKY RIDGE MOWER
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGRANT HAY FIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Tony: 12 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport View Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Country Place Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deer Tail Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flambeau River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Glen Flora Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Glen Flora Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Glen Flora Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
High Post Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nineteenth Hole Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Outlet Point Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tony in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2017HailTony-Half dollar size hail was reported at Highway 8 and Flambeau Drive, near Tony, Wisconsin.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTony-Large trees were blown down on Highway 8, east of Ladysmith.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindTony-A few trees and power lines were blown down near Troy.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindTony-Trees down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindTony-Trees blown down between Ladysmith and Glen Flora in the vicinity of the town of Tony. Westbound lane of Highway 8 blocked by fallen trees.
June 2007HailTony-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindTony-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Glen Flora5.3 miles8
Ladysmith6.1 miles7
Conrath7.1 miles7
Ingram9.7 miles7
Port Arthur9.7 miles7
Sheldon Estates11.9 miles7
Sheldon12.1 miles7
Thornapple13.0 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 TonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2742648The 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 1575507. 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.