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Westboro, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Westboro town. It lies in ZIP code area 54490. It stands on Fisher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westboro quadrangle. 213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,519 feet above sea level.

Westboro within Taylor County

On record in Westboro

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Westboro grew from 190 to 213 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
2010190
2020213+23 (+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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Westboro between 1994 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Smoking1
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
23 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Westboro: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them 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
Bjorklund Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Brook Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chelsea Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fisher Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Half Moon Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Levitt Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Levitt Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Linden Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Queenstown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rib Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westboro in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
September 2001Thunderstorm WindWestboro$50,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWestboro$4,000Numerous trees were blown down in Westboro.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWestboro$2,500no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWestboro$2,000Amateur radio operators reported several trees blown down across County Road D.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWestboro$1,000Trees were blown down in Westboro.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWestboro$1,000Trees were blown down and two fields had flattened corn. Damage was also reported along County Road M towards the Lincoln County line.
May 2024HailWestboro-The public reported 0.75 inch hail in Westboro. Reported via mPING.
July 2021Funnel CloudWestboro-A funnel cloud was sighted over Westboro.
April 2020HailWestboro-Quarter sized hail fell north of Westboro.
April 2020HailWestboro-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Westboro.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Queenstown0.5 miles10
Chelsea4.5 miles10
Rib Lake5.3 miles8
Whittlesey9.3 miles6
Interwald13.1 miles9
Murat13.9 miles8
Medford15.1 miles6
Little Black17.3 miles6

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 WestboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7987122The 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 1580763. 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.