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Germantown, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Westford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53924. It lies near Welch Valley. The Survey maps it on the La Valle quadrangle. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Germantown within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Germantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 2 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 burning53
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking4
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2012Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKER
3 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Germantown: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bunker Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chester Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dooley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rego QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Cazenovia1.4 miles11
Bunker Hill2.8 miles12
Corwin (historical)3.5 miles11
Loyd7.2 miles11
Hub City8.1 miles12
Rockbridge9.3 miles12
Henrietta (historical)9.3 miles11
Buck Creek10.4 miles12

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 GermantownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5552014The 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 1565496. 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.