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Gillingham, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marshall town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It stands on Marshall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gillingham quadrangle. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Gillingham within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Gillingham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 1 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 burning31
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking3
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
30 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRED2
19 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRED1
31 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH 1
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH 2
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKABOTA
15 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Gillingham: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Bert Ray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ewing QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Huth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joyce QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Motts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillingham in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 5 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGillingham$2,000Trees were blown down along State Highway 56 in Gillingham.
April 2026HailGillingham-The public reported quarter sized hail 4 miles south of Gillingham.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGillingham-Law enforcement reported a tree branch blocking a road in Gillingham.
April 2013HailGillingham-no account filed
March 2007HailGillingham-no account filed
August 2004HailGillingham-no account filed
June 2003HailGillingham-no account filed

Every storm 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
McGrew (historical)2.9 miles12
Woodstock3.3 miles12
Buck Creek4.4 miles12
Rockbridge4.6 miles12
Bloom City4.8 miles12
Hub City5.6 miles12
Ashford (historical)5.6 miles12
Mill Creek (historical)6.1 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 GillinghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5562358The 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 1577610. 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.