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Fillmore, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Farmington town. It lies in ZIP code area 53021. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newburg quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Fillmore within Washington County

On record in Fillmore

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Fillmore between 2002 and 2020, burning about 23 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
28 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources785
17 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19017
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18017
26 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20038
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources838
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources755
26 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources753

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Fillmore: 2 producers. 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
Hartman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hartmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fillmore in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2014HailFillmore-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindFillmore-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudFillmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Cheeseville2.3 miles15
Boltonville2.9 miles11
Orchard Grove4.3 miles15
Newburg4.7 miles15
Saint Michaels5.4 miles12
Myra6.0 miles15
Young America7.4 miles15
Barton7.4 miles15

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 FillmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5448845The 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 1564938. 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.