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Winter, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Winter Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54896. The Survey maps it on the Winter quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Winter within Sawyer County

Population over time

2 figures

Winter grew from 313 to 325 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
2010313
2020325+12 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Winter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKNAPP STOUT ROAD FIRE
3 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY G FIRE
28 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Winter: 8 occurrences, 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anna Olson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brunet River Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Gravel Deposit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Gravel Deposit #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Sand Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Sand Deposit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chippewa River Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dam Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dorscheid Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winter in 35 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2008LightningWinter$200,000A house fire was caused by a lightning strike. The house was totalled.
June 2017Flash FloodWinter$1,000Water flowed over Dam Road with a depth of 3 feet.
May 2016FloodWinter$1,000A few roads were washed out due to heavy rain.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWinter-A tree fell onto a cabin roof and twisted and broke an antenna.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWinter-A photo was received showing the top two-thirds of a tree that had been snapped off.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWinter-A few smaller trees were downed along with the top of a larger tree near Winter.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindWinter-An mPING report of trees uprooted or snapped was received.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindWinter-Multiple trees were damaged with a maple uprooted and a large poplar snapped.
June 2017FloodWinter-A local creek overflowed and flooded a home's basement and yard.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWinter-An 18 diameter tree broke 10' to 12' above its base. Numerous branches were broken.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWinter-Several limbs were down, including an 8 inch poplar branch. Power was out across Winter WI.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWinter-Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWinter-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWinter-Trees were blown down at Big Bear Lodge.
April 2026HailWinter-no account filed
July 2023HailWinter-no account filed
September 2022HailWinter-no account filed
July 2019HailWinter-no account filed
July 2019HailWinter-no account filed
July 2019HailWinter-no account filed
July 2019HailWinter-no account filed
July 2019HailWinter-no account filed
September 2019HailWinter-no account filed
May 2018HailWinter-no account filed
May 2018HailWinter-no account filed
July 2017HailWinter-no account filed
July 2017HailWinter-no account filed
July 2017HailWinter-no account filed
August 2015HailWinter-no account filed
June 2011HailWinter-no account filed
August 2010Funnel CloudWinter-no account filed
April 2009HailWinter-no account filed
June 2007HailWinter-no account filed
July 2006HailWinter-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWinter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Ojibwa5.8 miles8
Loretta9.6 miles11
New Post10.6 miles11
Draper10.6 miles11
Radisson11.6 miles8
Hay Stack Corner13.8 miles8
Couderay15.7 miles9
Exeland16.2 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 WinterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671552The 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 1576887. 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.