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Gilmanton, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gilmanton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54755. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gilmanton quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Gilmanton within Buffalo 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gilmanton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
7 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Gilmanton: 11 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lookout Valley Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Marum QuarryStoneUnknown
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Edward Kraemer & Sons, Inc.,Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fisken Valley Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hewitt Loomis Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Highway Side Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
K. A. Hovey Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lost Ridge Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Many Hills Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilmanton in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGilmanton$12,000Around a dozen power poles were blown down in Gilmanton.
August 2016FloodGilmanton$10,000Flood waters from Elk Creek seeped into some of the same houses that were affected by flooding in the August 11th event.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGilmanton$3,000Multiple trees were blown down in Gilmanton.
June 2018Flash FloodGilmanton$2,000Runoff from heavy rain pushed Hadley and Elm Creeks out of their banks with the flood waters going over State Highway 88, County Road B and Sand Road near Gilmanton.
July 2024HailGilmanton-The public reported quarter sized hail in Gilmanton.
October 2023Heavy RainGilmanton-A volunteer observer reported 2.16 inches of rainfall near Gilmanton.
May 2017HailGilmanton-Quarter sized hail fell near Gilmanton.
August 2016FloodGilmanton-County Highway B was closed between Sand Road and State Highway 88 northwest of Gilmanton when flood waters from Elk Creek went over the road.
August 2018HailGilmanton-no account filed
September 2010HailGilmanton-no account filed
April 2002HailGilmanton-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGilmanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Lookout5.2 miles11
Modena6.5 miles19
Springdale (historical)6.6 miles12
Mondovi6.7 miles11
Praag7.5 miles19
Montana9.0 miles11
Urne11.6 miles19
Waumandee11.7 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 GilmantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5562483The 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 1565537. 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.