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Warrens, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Warrens Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54666. It stands on Beltz Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warrens East quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Warrens within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Warrens grew from 363 to 544 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
2010363
2020544+181 (+50%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Warrens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism9
Other causes6
Smoking4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
27 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesARCTIC FIRE
27 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesASPEN FIRE
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2013Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWANG FIRE
8 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrens in 31 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 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
June 2004Tornado (F1)Warrens3 hurt, $75,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWarrens1 hurt, $4,000Several trees were blown down in Jellystone Park. One tree landed on a camper and injured someone.
July 2017Flash FloodWarrens$3,100,000Heavy rains, with totals of 6 to 8 inches, produced flash flooding across the western and central sections of Monroe County. A mudslide occurred between Sparta and Tomah in the Jackson Pass area that blocked State Highway 16. In Sparta, water spilled over the dam at Perch Lake prompting officials to advise people who lived downstream along the La Crosse River to evacuate, including a trailer park and water went over several roads. Around 10 roads across the county were closed because of the flooding.
July 2017FloodWarrens$3,050,000After the initial round of flash flooding, the lingering flood waters continued to cause problems across Monroe County into Friday, July 21st. Thirty-nine families across the county had to be evacuated and another 56 were affected by the flooding. State Highway 131 in the far southern part of the county was closed because of flooding along the Kickapoo River and State Highway 27 between Leon and Sparta was also closed. Several township roads were flooded along the La Crosse and Baraboo Rivers. A total of 10 state or county highways were closed because of the flooding. One home sustained major damage and another eight suffered minor damage.
August 2006HailWarrens$500,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWarrens$500,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWarrens$150,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWarrens$25,000Public reported fallen trees near Warrens.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWarrens$22,000no account filed
September 2010FloodWarrens$20,000A cranberry dam failed and washed out a portion of County Road O north of Warrens.
June 1998HailWarrens$15,000no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindWarrens$10,000Trees were blown down and damage to a roof and siding occurred in Warrens.
August 2006HailWarrens$10,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWarrens$10,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWarrens$5,000Widespread trees down, some with 15 inch diameters.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWarrens$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWarrens$750no account filed
September 2000HailWarrens$750no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWarrens$500no account filed
May 2024HailWarrens-Variable hail sizes of up to 1 inch were reported east of Warrens. Leaves and branches were taken off trees.
May 2024HailWarrens-Emergency Management reported nickel sized hail near Warrens.
July 2017HailWarrens-Quarter sized hail was reported in Warrens.
April 2011HailWarrens-Hail that ranged in size from three quarters of an inch up to an inch fell from west of Tomah to Warrens.
September 2010Heavy RainWarrens-The storm total rainfall amounted to 4.97 inches.
April 2022HailWarrens-no account filed
August 2020HailWarrens-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWarrens-no account filed
June 2007HailWarrens-no account filed
June 2004HailWarrens-no account filed
April 2002HailWarrens-no account filed
April 2002HailWarrens-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
Kirby3.5 miles14
Valley Junction7.1 miles11
North Tomah8.3 miles14
Norway Ridge9.0 miles10
Tunnel City9.2 miles14
Wyeville9.4 miles11
Tomah10.5 miles13
Spring Bank Park10.7 miles14

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 WarrensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2054723The 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 1576222. 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.

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.