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Windsor, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Windsor Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53532. It stands on Wheeler Wilcox Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Forest quadrangle. 8,754 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Windsor within Dane County

Population over time

2 figures

Windsor grew from 3,573 to 8,754 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
20103,573
20208,754+5,181 (+145%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

16 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 2004 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1060
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1183
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1822998
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKLEINERT ROAD
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources955
4 May 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources608
9 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources549

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Windsor: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Madison Stone Co Inc Ghost Hill QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Paulson Schwenn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Francis Nordness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Madison Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Token Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWindsor$2,000Three large trees uprooted.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWindsor$1,000Several tree limbs down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWindsor$500A tree down in Windsor.
February 2017HailWindsor-Hail covering the ground.
May 2024HailWindsor-no account filed
May 2017HailWindsor-no account filed
April 2014HailWindsor-no account filed
March 2005HailWindsor-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWindsor-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindWindsor-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWindsor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Lake Windsor1.0 miles24
De Forest2.0 miles24
Token Creek3.0 miles24
Raintree3.2 miles24
Wynbrooke3.6 miles24
Norway Grove3.9 miles24
Sunburst3.9 miles24
Morrisonville4.2 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 WindsorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8024546The 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 1576858. 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.