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Weston, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Weston Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54476. The Survey maps it on the Wausau East quadrangle. 15,723 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Weston within Marathon County

Population over time

2 figures

Weston grew from 14,868 to 15,723 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
201014,868
202015,723+855 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
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
29 August 1994Recreation and ceremony16 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11260
10 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER TIRE
9 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPHANTOM
21 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIVE POUND
2 June 2018Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources206

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Weston: 4 past producers, 3 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
Callon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cedar Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
George Will Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kelly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rothschild Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rothschild Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon 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
Kelly1.7 miles12
Callon2.3 miles12
Schofield3.3 miles12
Rothschild3.9 miles12
Wausau Junction4.7 miles12
Kronenwetter5.2 miles10
Evergreen5.8 miles10
East Hill6.1 miles12

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 WestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2322945The 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 1761601. 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.