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Calamine, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Willow Springs town. It lies in ZIP code area 53565. It stands on Bonner Branch. The Survey maps it on the Calamine quadrangle.

Calamine within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Calamine between 2018 and 2020, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning4
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
24 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18026
23 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18024
21 April 2019Arson/incendiarism14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19031
2 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20060
31 October 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20059

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Calamine: 19 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, 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
Als Trucking Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Calvert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerUnderground
Calvert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Otto Jean Kelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chesterfield DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Gundry DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Jackson MineLead, ZincPast Producer
M.C. MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Slateford MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calamine in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCalamine$100,000A swath of snapped and uprooted trees and flattened corn. Some structural damage to homes and farm buildings. A large tree limb fell on a truck.
June 2000Tornado (F1)Calamine$100,000no account filed
March 2019FloodCalamine$20,000The Pecatonica River at Darlington reached major flood stage, cresting at 17.62 feet the early evening of March 14th. Major urban flooding in the downtown area of Darlington affecting many businesses, although mitigation efforts resulted in less damage than past major floods. The main highways of 23 & 81 are closed as is Main St. The Lafayette County fairgrounds is flooded. The Pecatonica River is flooding portions of Calamine upstream from Darlington.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCalamine$15,000Numerous trees and power lines down throughout the county.
October 2019FloodCalamine$10,000The Pecatonica River at Darlington reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 15.88 feet the late morning of October 3rd. Highways 23 and 81 in Darlington are flooded and closed as is Main Street. The Lafayette County fairgrounds are flooded. Several miles upstream, there is flooding in Calamine and farther north Ferndale Rd. is flooded and closed.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCalamine-Law enforcement reported trees blown down and blocking roads around Calamine in the civil township of Willow Springs, north of the city of Darlington.
March 1998FloodCalamine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Slateford3.4 miles14
Truman3.9 miles12
Darlington4.7 miles12
Avon5.5 miles12
Fayette6.8 miles13
Belmont9.1 miles13
Red Rock9.2 miles12
Lamont9.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562506. 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.