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Waukau, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Rushford town. It lies in ZIP code area 54980. It stands on Eightmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rush Lake quadrangle. 302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Waukau within Winnebago County

Population over time

2 figures

Waukau grew from 255 to 302 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
2010255
2020302+47 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Waukau between 1996 and 2020, burning about 285 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 May 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeUIHLEIN
13 May 2019Smoking10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203
9 April 2014Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDODGEVILLE CO-OP 3
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictVEG FIRE
4 April 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictCOOP FIRE
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202
24 April 2009Debris and open burning40 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources157

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Waukau: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Rabbit Trail PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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
Island Park2.8 miles8
Omro3.8 miles8
Eureka3.9 miles8
Koro4.1 miles10
Elo4.9 miles9
Fisk5.5 miles9
Rush Lake5.8 miles10
Pickett5.8 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 WaukauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9095641The 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 1576309. 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.