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Concord, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Concord town. It lies in ZIP code area 53178. The Survey maps it on the Oconomowoc West quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Concord within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 Concord between 2018 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. None 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
11 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1907239
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801131
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800969
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018015
18 March 2018Debris and open burning35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Concord: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Janke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concord in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2006HailConcord$4,360,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindConcord$10,000Numerous large trees and branches down in the Concord area.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindConcord$1,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindConcord$500no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindConcord-Numerous trees down between Sullivan and Oconomowoc.
September 2010HailConcord-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudConcord-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindConcord-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindConcord-no account filed
May 2001HailConcord-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Spacious Acres2.0 miles18
Farmington3.9 miles18
Sullivan3.9 miles18
Lake Lac La Belle5.1 miles18
Ixonia5.1 miles18
Pipersville5.7 miles19
Heath Mills6.0 miles32
Rome6.4 miles31

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 ConcordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5158766The 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 1563308. 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.