Auroraville, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Aurora town. It lies in ZIP code area 54923. The Survey maps it on the Auroraville quadrangle.

Auroraville within Waushara County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Auroraville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Poy Sippi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

326 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Auroraville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 949 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 21 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	114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	77
Equipment and vehicle use	67
Arson/incendiarism	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Smoking	10
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	6

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
9 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ASH LIGHTNING
6 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LABOR DAY WEEKEND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auroraville in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2018	Hail	Auroraville	-	Quarter size hail fell near Auroraville.
August 2015	Hail	Auroraville	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail as it passed through Auroraville.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Auroraville	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Auroraville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fountain Valley	2.7 miles	8
Redgranite	5.7 miles	8
Borth	5.8 miles	8
Poy Sippi	5.9 miles	8
Lohrville	6.7 miles	8
Brushville	8.1 miles	8
Pine River	8.2 miles	8
Rodney (historical)	8.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561023. 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.

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.