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Whiting, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whiting Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54481. It stands on Plover River. The Survey maps it on the Whiting quadrangle. 1,601 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Whiting within Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Whiting fell from 1,724 to 1,601 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
20101,724
20201,601-123 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Whiting between 1992 and 2020, burning about 103 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
Equipment and vehicle use46
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR #1
8 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAJ'S LOST CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whiting in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindWhiting$4,060,000no account filed
March 2025HailWhiting-Quarter size hail fell near Plover.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 59 mph in Plover.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWhiting-Thunderstorm winds tore the siding from some trailers, uprooted trees, and caused tree damage at a trailer park on Hayes Avenue.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Whiting-no account filed
April 1997LightningWhiting-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Park Ridge1.9 miles9
Stevens Point2.2 miles9
Plover2.7 miles7
Stockton5.0 miles7
Rocky Run5.6 miles7
Casimir5.9 miles9
Meehan6.1 miles7
Jordan6.3 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 WhitingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2325388The 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 1576695. 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.