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Frenchville, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gale town. It lies in ZIP code area 54627. It stands on French Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ettrick quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Frenchville within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Frenchville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,215 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources428181
26 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources426181
1 April 2000Arson/incendiarism1,200 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803075
20 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources320181
17 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1017201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Frenchville: 22 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Johnson QuarryStoneUnknown
A Brovold Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
A Irvine Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
A Rosenvold Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
A Solberg Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Becker Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blankenhorn Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Butman Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
C Hovell Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
C Sahlstrom Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frenchville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2018FloodFrenchville$15,000Runoff from heavy rains pushed a few streams out of their banks across central Trempealeau County. The flooding closed County Highways T, W and NN and a few township roads.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFrenchville$1,000Trees were blown down north of Galesville.
June 2010HailFrenchville-The public reported the ground covered by nickel to pea size hail and leaves shredded off of plants.

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Ettrick3.1 miles11
Iduna3.4 miles11
Upper French Creek4.7 miles11
Galesville4.9 miles11
Butman Corners5.2 miles11
Chapultepee5.5 miles11
Beachs Corners5.8 miles13
Tamarack6.9 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 FrenchvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5502760The 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 1565318. 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.