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Wyocena, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Wyocena Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53969. It stands on Middle Branch Duck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wyocena quadrangle. 756 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Wyocena within Columbia County

Population over time

2 figures

Wyocena fell from 768 to 756 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
2010768
2020756-12 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Wyocena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning78
Equipment and vehicle use52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2000Natural2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1996Debris and open burning1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wyocena: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dann and Wendt Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Manthey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quality Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wyocena Dump PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wyocena in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1996LightningWyocena1 hurt, $2,000no account filed
June 2006Flash FloodWyocena$40,000Thunderstorms with torrential rainfall of 3 to 6 inches (radar estimated) within a couple hours caused low spots on several roads to be washed out near Poynette. In addition, there were other washouts of gravel shoulders on some roads. Several roads had water depths of 1 to 2 feet on low spots.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWyocena$8,000Widespread branches and trees down in Wyocena.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWyocena$2,000Scattered tree limbs down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWyocena$2,000Three trees down in Wyocena.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWyocena$2,000Several trees and branches down.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Wyocena$1,000A weak F0 tornado (60 to 70 mph) spun up 2.6 miles southwest of Wyocena and traveled south-southeast for about one-half mile to a point about 5.5 miles northeast of Poynette. Specifically, it spun up about 0.4 mile north of the intersection of Phillips Rd. and Langdon Rd., and ended about 0.3 mile southeast of the same intersection. Trees were uprooted and crops were damaged. Some lawn furniture and other personal belongings were damaged.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Wyocena-This brief tornado spun up about 3.85 miles west-southwest of the village of Wyocena just east of the intersection of Dunning Road and Patchin Road. It was captured in a video tape. Only some damage to tree branches was noted. The starting and ending lat-lon numbers are N43.47857/W89.37096 and N43.48060/w89.36700. On the EF-Scale, this tornado was given a rating of EF0, based on DI #27 (TH), DOD2.
June 2006HailWyocena-no account filed
October 2006HailWyocena-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWyocena-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWyocena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Pardeeville2.9 miles12
Rio4.9 miles9
Marcellon5.5 miles12
Lowville7.9 miles12
Belle Fountain8.5 miles12
Portage8.7 miles13
Poynette8.8 miles13
Dekorra8.8 miles13

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 WyocenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570202The 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 1577066. 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.