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Woodford, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wiota town. It lies in ZIP code area 53504. It stands on Trotter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Argyle quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Woodford within Lafayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodford grew from 69 to 71 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
201069
202071+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

1,653 words on this township

History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages ... Its War Record, Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution, and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wiota Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wiota Town - 1,653 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Woodford between 2018 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
6 June 2018Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018018
24 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020002
15 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019004
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018013
23 March 2018Smoking3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018007
21 March 2018Debris and open burning23 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018012
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020001
6 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Woodford: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Stone. 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
Argyle QuarryStoneUnknown
Scott QuarryStoneUnknown
Unnamed Prospect Along Apple BranCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Along Apple BranCopperOccurrence
Argyle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Berg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
G.A. WatsonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niffenegger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Shager QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodford in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1994Tornado (F1)Woodford$500,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodford$45,000A 60 foot by 120 foot pole barn was mostly leveled. The steel sheeting from the barn was blown about 1/4 mile to the northeast. The collapse of the pole barn damaged tractors, a combine, and other farm equipment. Another farm lost roofs from two sheds and several large trees were downed with a fallen tree totaling a car. At yet another residence, fallen trees damaged two buildings. Finally another residence had a 16 inch spruce tree snapped off at the base and it partially landed on the home damaging the sofitts and gutters.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWoodford$18,000no account filed
July 2007HailWoodford-no account filed
May 1998HailWoodford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Argyle3.6 miles13
Wiota4.8 miles14
South Wayne5.6 miles13
Lamont7.6 miles14
Riverside9.3 miles12
Gratiot9.7 miles12
Red Rock9.8 miles12
Blanchardville11.2 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 WoodfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032644The 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 1576987. 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.