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Fall Hall Glen, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Manchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 54615. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shamrock quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Fall Hall Glen within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Fall Hall Glen between 1992 and 2018, burning about 248 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use19
Other causes6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2015Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHUNDERCLOUD
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAWK ISLAND FIRE
2 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLINE FIRE
17 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fall Hall Glen: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Potter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fall Hall Glen in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindFall Hall Glen$2,000Several trees were blown down south of Black River Falls.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFall Hall Glen$2,000A cabin at the Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp was damaged by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2013FloodFall Hall Glen-Hawk Island Road in the Town of Manchester was closed starting in April until May 9th due to flooding and high water on the Black River.
April 2013FloodFall Hall Glen-Hawk Island Road in the Town of Manchester was closed from April 11th into May due to flooding and high water on the Black River.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Shamrock2.4 miles11
Irving3.3 miles11
Charter Oak Mills (historical)5.3 miles13
Sheppard5.4 miles13
Brockway6.1 miles13
Black River Falls6.8 miles13
Vaudreuil7.8 miles13
Melrose9.5 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 Fall Hall GlenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5432042The 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 1564843. 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.