Woodruff, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Woodruff town. It lies in ZIP code area 54568. It lies near Clumbs Island. The Survey maps it on the Woodruff quadrangle. 891 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWoodruff fell from 966 to 891 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 | 966 | |
| 2020 | 891 | -75 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1938 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:48000
- 1949 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Woodruff quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Rhinelander quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
148 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Woodruff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BAY FIRE |
| 15 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FIREWORKS DRIVEBY |
| 7 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 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
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Woodruff: 14 occurrences, 11 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnett Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Big Arbor Vitae Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Bittersweet Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Blatkowski Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Blue Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Carrol Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Clawson Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodruff in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodruff | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodruff | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Woodruff. The time of this report is estimated. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Woodruff | - | Severe thunderstorms tracked across northwest and north-central Wisconsin with violent damaging winds, hail up tennis ball size and three tornadoes. A tornado set down in northern Dunn County four miles west southwest of Ridgeland and traveled four miles northeastward into Barron County before lifting two miles southeast of Prairie Farm. The tornado damaged 13 homes, three barns, numerous small outbuildings as well as trees and power lines. In addition, it destroyed a large turkey farm building scattering 10,000 dead turkeys for miles. Another tornado skipped along a four mile path in Barron County east of Canton. Three barns and three mobile homes were either damaged or destroyed by the twister as well as several outbuildings and many trees and power lines. Damage totaled near $1.8 million in Barron County and $200,000 in Dunn County. A tornado touched down in Vilas County just north of Conover damaging a house and leveling hundreds of trees along its 4.5 mile path into the Nicolet National Forest. |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodruff | - | A line of severe thunderstorms rolled across northwest and north-central Wisconsin dropping hail up to 2.00 inches in diameter, generating winds up to 66 mph and producing two small tornadoes. A tornado struck just west of Cumberland in Barron County destroying a barn, damaging a house and uprooting 14 large trees. Another tornado set down briefly 2.5 miles north of Kennen in Price County damaging a roof on an old barn and some trees. Intense thunderstorm winds struck the Cumberland area in Barron County causing $120,000 in damage to 3 barns and 15 homes. Elsewhere damage was limited to trees and power lines. |
| August 2002 | Lightning | Woodruff | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minocqua | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Rantz | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Hazelhurst | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Sunflower | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Tomahawk | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Goodnow | 13.8 miles | 12 | |
| McNaughton | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Harshaw | 16.1 miles | 12 |
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 Woodruff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8033226 | 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 1577018. 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.







