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Wabeno, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wabeno town. It lies in ZIP code area 54566. It stands on Range Line Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wabeno quadrangle. 453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,539 feet above sea level.

Wabeno within Forest County

On record in Wabeno

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Wabeno fell from 575 to 453 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
2010575
2020453-122 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Wabeno between 1994 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
16 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCABIN
25 July 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 1998Smokingunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestQUARTZ TRAIL
12 July 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHIMLEY ISLAND
26 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National Forestnot named
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestDAISY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Wabeno: 7 past producers, 5 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
Carter Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eugene Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Geiter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indian Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Outskirts Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Range Line Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Round Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Round Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabeno in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindWabeno$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and destroyed a band stand in downtown Wabeno. The landmark band stand was in the community for more than 50 years.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWabeno-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near County Road W.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWabeno-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in the far south and southwest parts of Forest County, west of Carter and about 2 miles north of the Pickerel area.
May 2012HailWabeno-Quarter size hail fell at Wabeno.
May 2012HailWabeno-Quarter size hail fell near Wabeno.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWabeno-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near the intersection of STH 52 and CTH W.
September 2012Funnel CloudWabeno-Thunderstorms produced a funnel cloud over Wabeno.
October 2010HailWabeno-Dime-size hail fell at Wabeno.
June 2008HailWabeno-no account filed
July 2008HailWabeno-no account filed
July 2008HailWabeno-no account filed
July 2008HailWabeno-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWabeno-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWabeno-no account filed
June 1999HailWabeno-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forest 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
Soperton1.3 miles11
Carter3.7 miles11
Padus3.8 miles11
Minertown (historical)4.2 miles11
Oneva (historical)4.4 miles11
Blackwell5.8 miles9
Blackwell Junction6.4 miles9
Woodlawn8.6 miles11

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 WabenoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7958692The 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 1580716. 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.