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Wauzeka, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wauzeka town. It lies in ZIP code area 53826. It stands on Kickapoo River. The Survey maps it on the Wauzeka West quadrangle. 628 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Wauzeka within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Wauzeka fell from 711 to 628 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
2010711
2020628-83 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Wauzeka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Natural1
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
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWOODMAN CAR FIRE
17 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUSTANG FIRE
5 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAIRPIN
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Wauzeka: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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
Wauzeka QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plum Creek Copper MineCopperOccurrence
Plum Creek Copper MineCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wauzeka in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 7 hail, 5 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWauzeka$75,000A mobile home was destroyed and another home sustained roof damage in Wauzeka from thunderstorm winds.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWauzeka$40,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWauzeka$2,000Several trees were blown down west of Wauzeka.
June 2021Funnel CloudWauzeka-A funnel cloud was sighted north of Wauzeka.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWauzeka-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Wauzeka.
June 2015HailWauzeka-Quarter sized hail fell just northwest of Wauzeka.
July 2009HailWauzeka-Hail was reported at County Road N, east of Highway 27.
September 2013HailWauzeka-no account filed
October 2006HailWauzeka-no account filed
June 2003HailWauzeka-no account filed
June 1998HailWauzeka-no account filed
July 1994HailWauzeka-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWauzeka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Boydtown4.6 miles10
Steuben6.7 miles10
Eastman9.1 miles19
Barnum9.5 miles10
Easter Rock9.7 miles10
White Corners10.4 miles19
Bridgeport10.6 miles19
Plugtown11.9 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 WauzekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q948678The 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 1576337. 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.