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Wonewoc, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wonewoc Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53968. It lies near Castle Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Wonewoc quadrangle. 758 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Wonewoc within Juneau County

Population over time

2 figures

Wonewoc fell from 816 to 758 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
2010816
2020758-58 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Wonewoc between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 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 burning31
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCO RD G
17 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWILKINSON RD
15 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTOWNSHED RD
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201917
13 May 2003Natural3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wonewoc: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Rick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wonewoc in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008FloodWonewoc$150,000Water was over Geier Road due to flooding from Crossman Creek.
August 2006HailWonewoc$40,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWonewoc$3,000Numerous trees were blown down in the Township of Wonewoc.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWonewoc$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Wonewoc.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWonewoc$2,000Trees were blown down in Wonewoc.
August 2006HailWonewoc-no account filed
August 2006HailWonewoc-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWonewoc-no account filed
June 2005HailWonewoc-no account filed
May 2004HailWonewoc-no account filed
September 1994HailWonewoc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Union Center3.2 miles11
Elroy6.6 miles11
Lindina8.4 miles12
Mauston12.6 miles12
Lemonweir14.2 miles12
Hustler15.9 miles13
New Lisbon15.9 miles12
Orange Mill17.2 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 WonewocAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306668The 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 1576954. 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.