Winneconne, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Winneconne town. It lies in ZIP code area 54986. The Survey maps it on the Omro quadrangle. 2,544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWinneconne grew from 2,383 to 2,544 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 | 2,383 | |
| 2020 | 2,544 | +161 (+7%) |
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 Omro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Oshkosh quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
3,161 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Winneconne Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Winneconne Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
5 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Winneconne between 2014 and 2020, burning about 278 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 275 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | CTH MM |
| 29 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 30 |
| 29 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201812 |
| 18 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202053 |
| 24 October 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 495 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Winneconne: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broehm Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Doro Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kalata Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Thomack Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winneconne in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Winneconne | $200,000 | Flash flooding blocked parts of USH-41 south of Oshkosh and SH-21 around Omro, causing authorities to close sections of those highways. Approximately 75 homes sustained basement flooding. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Winneconne. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Winneconne. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | Thunderstorms downed several trees as they passed through southwest Winnebago County. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Winneconne | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Winneconne | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winneconne | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lasleys Point | 1.2 miles | 8 | |
| Indian Shores | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Piacenza | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Clarks Point | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Rivermoor | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Butte des Morts | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Harbor Springs | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Nichols Shore Acres | 4.0 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 Winneconne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2022085 | 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 1576880. 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.



