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El Paso, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1990. It stands in El Paso town. It lies in ZIP code area 54003. The Survey maps it on the El Paso quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

El Paso within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of El Paso between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1 acre 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 burning2

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 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources47
18 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of El Paso: 18 occurrences, 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Cave Creek Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Halverson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pine Coulee Road Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rush River Dolomite Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rush River Dolomite Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rush River Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sukawaty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brush Creek Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cave Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cave Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Paso in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 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
July 2010Tornado (EF2)El Paso$800,000Several sheds and outbuildings were destroyed, as were a couple of barns. Hundreds of trees were snapped. The tornado was accompanied by strong rear flank downdraft winds that also knocked down numerous trees.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEl Paso$20,000A shed was damaged and several dozen trees broken due to rear flank downdraft winds from the tornado that developed west of Beldenville.
May 2023HailEl Paso-Two local storm reports from trained spotters reported quarter to an inch and a quarter sized hail between the towns of El Paso, WI and Maiden Rock, WI. Or, approximately 5 miles ESE of Ellsworth, WI.
May 2023HailEl Paso-Social media showed a photo of hail stone compared to a quarter, and the size was estimated to be golfball size.
May 2023HailEl Paso-One inch hail was reported near El Paso WI.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEl Paso-A large tree was blown down in El Paso. A social media picture confirmed the damage.
August 2018HailEl Paso-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Lawton3.8 miles11
Olivet4.7 miles11
Martell5.0 miles11
Waverly5.4 miles15
Viking6.4 miles11
Morton Corner6.9 miles11
East Ellsworth7.0 miles15
Rock Elm7.1 miles13

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 El PasoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5351758The 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 1564482. 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.