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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.

Woodman within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodman 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.

YearPeople Change
2010132
2020118-14 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

7,560 words on this township

History 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 1992

Regional 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWOODMAN CAR FIRE
11 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUSTANG FIRE
5 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Millville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wauzeka QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019HailWoodman-Quarter sized hail fell between Woodman and Boscobel.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodman-Trees were blown down southwest of Boscobel along Wisconsin River Valley Road.
June 2011HailWoodman-no account filed
July 2009HailWoodman-no account filed
June 1998HailWoodman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Werley5.2 miles10
Boscobel5.9 miles10
Millville7.9 miles10
Mount Ida8.4 miles15
Mount Hope9.0 miles15
Shady Dell9.1 miles15
Homer9.8 miles10
Fennimore10.7 miles15

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 WoodmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2222188The 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.