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Boardman, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richmond town. It lies in ZIP code area 54017. It lies near Big Mound. The Survey maps it on the New Richmond South quadrangle.

Boardman within St. Croix County

On record in Boardman

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Boardman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20181
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20194
16 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
28 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources106
27 May 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190057
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources88

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Boardman: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Rivard QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Apple River Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Apple River Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Apple River Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bright Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New Richmond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New Richmond Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverdale Flowage Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Croix County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boardman in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2017LightningBoardman2 hurtTwo individuals were struck by lightning as they were playing outside. Both sustained burns to their chest and backs.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBoardman$5,000A small shed was destroyed, a few shingles were blown off a roof near Boardman.

Every storm recorded in St. Croix 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
Burkhardt4.7 miles14
Burkhardt Station5.0 miles14
New Richmond5.2 miles14
Somerset5.6 miles14
Riverside5.8 miles14
Roberts6.1 miles12
Sono Junction6.7 miles12
Johannesburg6.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1581596. 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.