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Batavia, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Scott town. It lies in ZIP code area 53001. The Survey maps it on the Batavia quadrangle. 242 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Batavia within Sheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

11 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Batavia between 2014 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 July 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2183
7 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1956
31 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBATAVIA 2
6 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBATAVIA
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources755
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1378
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1330
15 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1178

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Batavia: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cascade PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Skelton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southwest Area OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batavia in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBatavia$15,000A grain bin was blown over.

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Gooseville1.7 miles11
Cranberry Marsh2.4 miles11
Silver Creek2.9 miles11
Beechwood3.7 miles11
Cascade5.0 miles12
Adell5.5 miles8
Random Lake5.6 miles8
Parnell5.6 miles12

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 BataviaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4868662The 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 1561299. 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.