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Bloomville, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Schley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54435. It stands on North Branch Prairie River. The Survey maps it on the Bloomville quadrangle.

Bloomville within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Bloomville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesUNDERDOWN
23 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomville in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindBloomville$20,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn southwest of Gleason.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBloomville$5,000no account filed
April 2002HailBloomville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Gleason2.0 miles11
Dutch Corners4.1 miles12
Dudley4.4 miles11
Doering5.4 miles11
Irma8.4 miles9
Otis8.9 miles9
Merrill11.3 miles12
Pine River12.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561937. 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.