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Forestville, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Forestville town. It lies in ZIP code area 54213. The Survey maps it on the Forestville quadrangle. 482 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Forestville within Door County

Population over time

2 figures

Forestville grew from 430 to 482 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010430
2020482+52 (+12%)

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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Forestville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources87
25 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101
30 May 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources85
17 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources78
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources17
15 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Forestville: 10 past producers, 3 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
Door Quarry SouthStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Algoma Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
B Wilke Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blahnik Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C Alexander Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
E Kroening Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Shestock Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gunnlaugsson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Jacobs Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O Born Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forestville in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 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
April 2020HailForestville-Quarter size hail fell in Forestville.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindForestville-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Forestville.
March 2008Heavy RainForestville-Rainfall of 0.72 inch was measured near Forestville for the 24 hours ending on the morning of March 3rd. Most of the rain fell in just a few hours overnight. The rain fell on a deck covered with about 30 inches of snow. The homeowner was beneath the deck, apparently attempting to jack up the sagging structure, when the combined weight of the rain and snow caused it to collapse on him. The man died after being buried in snow and timbers.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Forestville-Brief touchdown
September 2005HailForestville-no account filed
July 2004HailForestville-no account filed
April 2003HailForestville-no account filed
April 2003HailForestville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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
Carnot3.4 miles8
Maplewood4.0 miles8
Kolberg4.2 miles8
Vignes5.9 miles8
Misere (historical)6.5 miles8
Rosiere7.1 miles8
Salona7.6 miles8
Brussels8.2 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 ForestvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2170590The 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 1565146. 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.