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Germania, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shields town. It lies in ZIP code area 54960. The Survey maps it on the Germania quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Germania within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Germania between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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 burning64
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism16
Other causes8
Natural7
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
5 September 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROUNDBALE FIRE
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2000Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesINDIAN SANDS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germania in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGermania$3,000Trees down in the township of Shields.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGermania-Wisconet site MTLO recorded a wind gust of 58 mph.
September 2000HailGermania-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Budsin3.5 miles10
Neshkoro5.6 miles14
Mecan6.9 miles14
Montello7.6 miles10
Harrisville7.9 miles10
Glen Oak11.5 miles12
Westfield12.5 miles10
Packwaukee13.8 miles10

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 GermaniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5551895The 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 1565491. 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.