Woodman, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Woodman town. It lies in ZIP code area 53827. The Survey maps it on the Wauzeka East quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWoodman fell from 132 to 118 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 | 132 | |
| 2020 | 118 | -14 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 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.
- 1926 USGS Wauzeka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wauzeka quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Wauzeka East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Richland Center quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
7,560 words on this townshipHistory of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Woodman Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In 1864, Ralph Smith and Cyrus Woodman laid out a village on Sections 13 and 14, to which was given the name of Woodman. The first settlers in the village were Charles Smith and Mr. J. Lindig, who located in the spring of 1864. The first house was erected this year by Ralph Smith, as a residence for his son Charles, the carpenter work being done by T. S. Sampson. The post office was established also during that year, with S. S. Hills as Postmaster. At this time it was kept in the railroad depot, which had been erected in the fall of the same year. Thomas Clapp succeeded to the Postmastership, and he in turn was followed by L. M. Culver, the office in the meantime being kept in a warehouse. Cyrus Ransom subsequently became Postmaster, and the office was removed to his shoe-shop Mr. Ransom was followed by J. L. Parker, and the office again removed this time to his store. It was kept here until the present incumbent, James A. Faris, received his appointment, since which time it has been kept at his store.
Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.
In 1878, a large fire occurred in the village of Woodman, when the railroad depot, a warehouse owned by John Plankington, the post office building and store owned by J. L. Parker, the saloon and residence of John Murphy, the residence and wagon-shop of M. B. Clark, and a shoe store owned by I. W. Dexter, were burned down, causing a total loss of $5,500, with no insurance except $2,200 on the store building and stock of J. L. Parker.
Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.
In April, 1879, the first work was done in the town of Woodman, on the Chicago & Tomah Narrow Gauge Railway, at what is known as " Cor.nely's Cut." This road was finished to Lancaster in the following January. In 1880, it was purchased by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, and has since been operated by them.
Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.
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 Woodman Town - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Woodman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 405 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WOODMAN CAR FIRE |
| 11 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MUSTANG FIRE |
| 5 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 July 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodman: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wauzeka Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodman in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Hail | Woodman | - | Quarter sized hail fell between Woodman and Boscobel. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodman | - | Trees were blown down southwest of Boscobel along Wisconsin River Valley Road. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Woodman | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Woodman | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Woodman | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Werley | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Boscobel | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Millville | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Ida | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Hope | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Shady Dell | 9.1 miles | 15 | |
| Homer | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Fennimore | 10.7 miles | 15 |
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 Woodman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2222188 | 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 1577015. 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.







