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Cloverdale, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Necedah town. It lies in ZIP code area 54646. The Survey maps it on the Cutler quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Cloverdale within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Cloverdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,194 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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 burning37
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNecedah National Wildlife RefugeTOWNSHIP
29 September 1999Other causes3.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesASPEN FIRE
12 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK 22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau 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 Cloverdale: 1 past producer. 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
Necedah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverdale in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2017LightningCloverdale$55,000A fire caused by a lightning strike, destroyed a house west of Necedah.
October 2023Heavy RainCloverdale-An automated weather observation station reported 2.10 inches of rainfall near Necedah.

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Cutler3.1 miles14
Necedah5.6 miles12
Kelly5.8 miles12
Lone Rock5.9 miles12
Camp Douglas8.6 miles13
Sprague8.8 miles12
Orange Mill9.0 miles12
New Lisbon10.1 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CloverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5135942The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577548. 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.