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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.

Wild Rose within Waushara County

Population over time

2 figures

Wild 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.

YearPeople Change
2010725
2020780+55 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

146 since 1992

Regional 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes5
Natural4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWASP ERADICATION
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAPACHE RD EQ
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBADGER FIRE
22 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PINE
19 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSAW FIRE
12 September 2013Natural20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBITTNER FOREST FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998HailWild Rose1 hurtno account filed
June 2017Tornado (EF1)Wild Rose$100,000A 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 2013Thunderstorm WindWild Rose$25,000Thunderstorm 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 2015Thunderstorm WindWild Rose$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed medium size trees in Wild Rose.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWild Rose$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near Wild Rose. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wild Rose. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Wild Rose. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wild Rose. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph in Wild Rose.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Thunderstorms produced gusts to 60 mph along with penny size hail.
April 2011HailWild Rose-Golf ball size hail fell 2 miles east of Wild Rose.
April 2011HailWild Rose-Penny size hail fell east of Wild Rose and wind gusts reached 60 mph.
April 2011HailWild Rose-Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail and a rotating wall cloud at Wild Rose.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Large tree branches and a power line were blown down on Highway 22 near Wild Rose.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWild 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 2010HailWild Rose-Quarter size hail fell at Wild Rose.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-High winds from thunderstorms downed trees that blocked area roads.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-Scattered trees down across the county.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-no account filed
July 2006HailWild Rose-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWild Rose-no account filed
March 1998HailWild Rose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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
Mount Morris5.4 miles8
Heffron5.4 miles7
Saxeville7.1 miles8
Wautoma7.5 miles6
Silver Lake8.6 miles8
Pine River9.3 miles8
Spring Lake11.7 miles8
Lohrville12.0 miles8

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 RoseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233056The 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.