BlockGarfield, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in New Hope town. It lies in ZIP code area 54407. The Survey maps it on the New Hope quadrangle. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
71 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Garfield between 1993 and 2018, burning about 76 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY RR FIRE #1 |
| 25 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HENSLER LIGHTING STRIKE |
| 14 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TRANSIT FIRE |
| 14 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garfield in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | A line of thunderstorms moved across central Wisconsin during the late afternoon. One of the storms produced downburst winds of 60 to over 90 mph along a three mile path in eastern Portage County which uprooted or snapped about 300 trees. The strongest winds, estimated near 95 mph, occurred in a localized area near Krogwold Road and Sunset Lake Road outside of Peru, where about 100 trees, mainly pine, were snapped or uprooted. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peru | 2.8 miles | 7 | |
| New Hope | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Alban | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Rosholt | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Nelsonville | 4.7 miles | 6 | |
| Little Waupon | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Lake Emily (historical) | 6.2 miles | 6 | |
| Polonia | 6.3 miles | 7 |
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 Garfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714438 | The 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 1577608. 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.