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Two Rivers, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Two Rivers City. It lies in ZIP code area 54241. It stands on East Twin River. The Survey maps it on the Two Rivers quadrangle. 11,271 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Two Rivers within Manitowoc County

On record in Two Rivers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 13 shown

Every listing in Manitowoc County

Population over time

2 figures

Two Rivers fell from 11,712 to 11,271 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
201011,712
202011,271-441 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Two Rivers between 1994 and 2018, burning about 5 acres 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/undetermined2

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
10 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources180124

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc 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 Two Rivers: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Manitowoc OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Rivers in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodTwo Rivers$170,000Runoff from rainfall and snow melt combined with ice jams to cause flooding on rivers, streams and roads in the vicinity of Manitowoc and Two Rivers. Some residents living near the West Twin River had to be evacuated while county emergency crews worked to contain the overflowing Shoto Dam. The runoff also caused flooding of other low-lying and poor drainage areas. Two homes sustained major flood damage, and four homes and one business sustained minor damage. Some roads were also damaged by the flooding and required repairs after the water receded. The Manitowoc River reached major flood stage just west of Manitowoc, reaching a (preliminary) record stage of 13.58 feet. A county-wide state of emergency was declared on March 15th.
July 2021Flash FloodTwo Rivers$28,000Several rounds of thunderstorms dumped rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches during the afternoon and evening hours of July 14. Numerous reports of flooded and impassable roads were reported in Manitowoc and surrounding areas.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers$4,500Thunderstorms produced a wind gust estimated at 65 mph that downed trees, one of which fell on a car, as they moved through Two Rivers. The storms also produced dime size hail as they passed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-Winds from a decaying line of showers caused wind damage in Two Rivers. The winds uprooted some trees, pushed over a fence, and snapped a few power poles.
June 2022HailTwo Rivers-Half dollar size hail fell in Two Rivers.
June 2022HailTwo Rivers-Ping pong size hail fell near Two Rivers.
June 2021HailTwo Rivers-Penny size hail fell in Two Rivers.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Two Rivers. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Two Rivers, knocking out power to the west side of town.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-The public reported that many trees and powerlines were knocked down on the north side of Two Rivers.
July 2012HailTwo Rivers-Quarter size hail fell at Two Rivers.
July 2012HailTwo Rivers-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail and strong winds at Two Rivers. The winds downed a flag pole and threw chairs across a yard.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-no account filed
June 2002LightningTwo Rivers-no account filed
August 2001HailTwo Rivers-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Shoto4.5 miles8
Manitowoc6.5 miles9
Mishicot7.0 miles8
Kingsbridge7.1 miles8
Rockwood7.3 miles8
Kellners Corners7.7 miles8
Manitowoc Rapids7.9 miles9
University Village Heights8.3 miles9

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 Two RiversAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957313The 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 1575831. 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.