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Finley, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Finley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54646. The Survey maps it on the Finley quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Finley within Juneau County

On record in Finley

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

6 surveys from 12 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Finley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
25 September 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresNecedah National Wildlife RefugeNOFAULTWF
18 September 1996Smoking2.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWERLINE
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finley in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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
September 2010FloodFinley$900,000The Yellow, Lemonweir and Wisconsin Rivers along with their tributaries flooded, which caused road closures, evacuations, and damage to some roads, homes and businesses. People were evacuated from a campground east of Mauston along the Lemonweir River, while a dozen campers, campsites and sheds were ruined. In Necedah, water rose onto the property of several businesses, while homes on the east side of town were evacuated. Five homes and 2 businesses incurred major damage, while 14 homes and 1 business reported minor damage. Some specific road closures included County Roads G and F, and 11th Street, as well as County Roads HH and N near Lyndon Station.
September 2022HailFinley$45,000Up to 3 inch diameter hail was reported east of Finley that caused damage to some vehicles.
September 2022HailFinley$25,000Egg sized hail was reported north of Finley.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFinley$5,000Trees were blown down across the northeast part of Juneau County in Finley and Armenia townships.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFinley$2,000Trees were blown down along State Highway 80 and County Road F.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFinley$1,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFinley$750no account filed
April 2008HailFinley-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFinley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Meadow Valley4.5 miles12
Sprague4.5 miles12
New Miner6.1 miles13
Mather10.4 miles10
Cloverdale13.2 miles14
Necedah13.3 miles12
Cutler14.0 miles14
Kelly17.1 miles12

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 FinleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5450566The 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 1564945. 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.

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.