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Ellisville, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Montpelier town. It lies in ZIP code area 54217. The Survey maps it on the Stangelville quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Ellisville within Kewaunee County

On record in Ellisville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ellisville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0F19151
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
13 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources115418
8 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources15
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesF200044
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000164

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Ellisville: 15 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 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
Luxemburg Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cherneyville Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Delleman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duescher Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E Seidl Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J Hrabik Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J Kudick Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Wessely Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellisville in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindEllisville$500no account filed
July 1994HailEllisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Pilsen2.4 miles8
Cherneyville3.3 miles8
Krok3.4 miles8
Neuern3.7 miles8
Stangelville4.0 miles8
East Krok4.8 miles8
Casco Junction5.3 miles8
Ryans Corner5.6 miles8

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 EllisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366082The 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 1564548. 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.