Wild Rose, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wild Rose Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54984. The Survey maps it on the Wild Rose quadrangle. 780 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWild Rose grew from 725 to 780 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 725 | |
| 2020 | 780 | +55 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Redgranite quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Wild Rose quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
146 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Wild Rose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 burning | 64 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WASP ERADICATION |
| 6 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | APACHE RD EQ |
| 28 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BADGER FIRE |
| 22 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WHITE PINE |
| 19 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SAW FIRE |
| 12 September 2013 | Natural | 20 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BITTNER FOREST FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wild Rose in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Hail | Wild Rose | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Wild Rose | $100,000 | A tornado formed east of Wild Rose and quickly moved northeast, uprooting or snapping over 100 pine trees (DI 28, DOD 2-4) along its intermittent path. Several houses sustained significant roof damage from fallen trees. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several dozen trees in Wild Rose. Several houses were damaged by the fallen trees. In addition, some roads become impassable over northern and eastern sections of Waushara County due to downed trees. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed medium size trees in Wild Rose. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near Wild Rose. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wild Rose. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Wild Rose. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wild Rose. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph in Wild Rose. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorms produced gusts to 60 mph along with penny size hail. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Wild Rose | - | Golf ball size hail fell 2 miles east of Wild Rose. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Wild Rose | - | Penny size hail fell east of Wild Rose and wind gusts reached 60 mph. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail and a rotating wall cloud at Wild Rose. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Large tree branches and a power line were blown down on Highway 22 near Wild Rose. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 60 mph as they moved through Wild Rose and a rotating wall cloud was observed near the city. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Wild Rose | - | Quarter size hail fell at Wild Rose. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | High winds from thunderstorms downed trees that blocked area roads. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | Scattered trees down across the county. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Wild Rose | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Morris | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Heffron | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Saxeville | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Wautoma | 7.5 miles | 6 | |
| Silver Lake | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pine River | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Lake | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lohrville | 12.0 miles | 8 |
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 Wild Rose | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2233056 | The 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 1576731. 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.



