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Beechwood, 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 53040. The Survey maps it on the Batavia quadrangle.

Beechwood 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

15 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Beechwood between 2004 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources838
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201836
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201839
3 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beechwood: 1 producer. All of them 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
Southwest Area OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beechwood in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Tornado (F1)Beechwood$250,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBeechwood$20,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeechwood$10,000Widespread tree damage with some power outages.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBeechwood$10,000Trees and power lines down.
July 2006LightningBeechwood$5,000Lightning struck a power-line voltage regulator, disrupting power to about 100 homes on CTH S.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBeechwood$5,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBeechwood$2,000no account filed
September 2006HailBeechwood-no account filed
October 2006HailBeechwood-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBeechwood-no account filed

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
Cranberry Marsh2.3 miles11
Batavia3.7 miles11
Parnell5.2 miles12
Gooseville5.3 miles11
Silver Creek5.6 miles11
Cascade7.5 miles12
Random Lake8.9 miles8
Adell9.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561498. 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.