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Bloom City, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bloom town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It lies near Hynek Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Gillingham quadrangle.

Bloom City within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Bloom City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 99 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH 1
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH 2
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKABOTA
15 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bloom City: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jake Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mullendorf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spangler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thompson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloom City in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 2 hail, 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBloom City$15,000no account filed
September 2016HailBloom City-Quarter sized hail fell in Bloom City.
June 2006HailBloom City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Woodstock2.5 miles12
Yuba3.6 miles11
Henrietta (historical)3.8 miles11
Gillingham4.8 miles12
West Lima5.0 miles12
Hub City6.0 miles12
Rockbridge6.2 miles12
McGrew (historical)6.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561927. 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.