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Tunnel City, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greenfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54660. The Survey maps it on the Tunnel City quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Tunnel City within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Tunnel City fell from 106 to 100 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
2010106
2020100-6 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Tunnel City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 use52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning39
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources142 FIRE
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUCK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tunnel City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ostrine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tunnel City in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2011Tornado (EF2)Tunnel City$510,000This tornado first developed about 4 miles northwest of Tomah. It then proceeded to move east-northeast crossing Interstate 94 north of Tomah. A house and mobile home were destoyed north of Tomah and another house was significantly damaged northeast of Tomah. The tornado then passed through mainly wooded rural areas before crossing into Juneau County southwest of Mather. Damage estimates for this tornado are just over $500,000.
August 2006HailTunnel City$60,000no account filed
August 2006HailTunnel City$20,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTunnel City$5,000A power line was blown down northwest of Tomah. Sparks from the downed line started a small fire that damaged a garage and burned less than an acre of grassland.
July 2008FloodTunnel City$4,000Water rose over the bridge at Mud Creek and may have been over the bridge during the night.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindTunnel City$3,000Several large trees were snapped off southwest of Tunnel City.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTunnel City$1,000Amateur radio reports one tree down in the town of Tomah.
August 2020HailTunnel City-Quarter sized hail fell near Tunnel City.
December 2015Heavy RainTunnel City-A total of 4.42 inches of rain was reported. Other totals around the county included 4.25 inches in Kendall, 4.14 near Warrens, and 3.69 inches at Cashton.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTunnel City-Amateur radio operators estimated a 60 miles per hour wind gust.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTunnel City-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTunnel City-no account filed
June 2001HailTunnel City-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindTunnel City-no account filed
June 2000HailTunnel City-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindTunnel City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
North Tomah2.7 miles14
Spring Bank Park2.9 miles14
Tomah3.8 miles13
Jacksonville3.8 miles13
Kirby5.9 miles14
Scotts Junction (historical)6.2 miles12
Valley Junction8.7 miles11
Warrens9.2 miles10

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 Tunnel CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7853282The 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 1575713. 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.