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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional 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 burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 47 |
| 18 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Creek Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Halverson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pine Coulee Road Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Rush River Dolomite Deposit #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Rush River Dolomite Deposit #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Rush River Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Sukawaty Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Brush Creek Drive Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Cave Creek Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Cave Creek Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
7 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF2) | El Paso | $800,000 | Several 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Paso | $20,000 | A shed was damaged and several dozen trees broken due to rear flank downdraft winds from the tornado that developed west of Beldenville. |
| May 2023 | Hail | El 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 2023 | Hail | El Paso | - | Social media showed a photo of hail stone compared to a quarter, and the size was estimated to be golfball size. |
| May 2023 | Hail | El Paso | - | One inch hail was reported near El Paso WI. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Paso | - | A large tree was blown down in El Paso. A social media picture confirmed the damage. |
| August 2018 | Hail | El Paso | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawton | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Olivet | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Martell | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Waverly | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Viking | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Morton Corner | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| East Ellsworth | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rock Elm | 7.1 miles | 13 |
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 Paso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5351758 | The 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.







