Franksville, Wisconsin

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.

• 1891 USGS Bayview quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Bayview quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Franksville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS South Milwaukee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Racine quadrangle1:100000

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Caledonia Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Franksville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 32 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ives Grove
• Caledonia
• Husher
• Thompsonville
• Kilbournville
• Sturtevant

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franksville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

Every storm recorded in Racine County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1565278. 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.