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Commonwealth, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Commonwealth town. It lies in ZIP code area 54121. The Survey maps it on the Florence East quadrangle. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Commonwealth within Florence County

On record in Commonwealth

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Commonwealth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Fireworks8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Other causes3
Smoking1

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 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUTTONS AND BOWS
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIFT STATION
8 August 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTING FIRE
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH ON N
3 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE CRACKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Commonwealth: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Commonwealth GroupIronPast Producer1880, 1916
Commonwealth GroupIronPast Producer1880
Ernst MineIronPast Producer1849, 1914, 1929
Ernst MineIronPast Producer1912, 1914
Florence MineIronPast Producer1849, 1880, 1931
Florence MineIronPast Producer1880
Larson ExplorationIronProspect
Larson Exploration ProspectIronOccurrence1849, 1948
Blooms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Commonwealth Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Commonwealth in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 1 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCommonwealth$15,000no account filed
May 2022HailCommonwealth-Lime size hail fell in Commonwealth.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Florence0.9 miles9
Hematite1.6 miles10
Ridgetop1.9 miles9
Tyran4.2 miles9
Spread Eagle5.7 miles10
Pulp7.7 miles11
Fern9.4 miles8
Aurora11.5 miles11

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 CommonwealthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5153678The 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 1563294. 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.