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Globe, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Weston town. It lies in ZIP code area 54437. The Survey maps it on the Willard quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Globe within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Globe between 1994 and 2018, burning about 26 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
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
19 August 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
14 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2009Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHANSEN BARN BURNER
23 April 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTERLING FIRE
16 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 1999Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Globe: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Greenwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schuering PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Globe in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2019Tornado (EF1)Globe$255,000An EF1 tornado tracked across rural sections of central Clark County. The tornado touched down near the Black River southwest of Greenwood and then moved northeast before dissipating west of Loyal. Along its path, the tornado damaged trees, barns, silos, and crops. At least three cows were killed at one farm.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGlobe$2,000Several trees were blown down southwest of Christie.
July 2011Heavy RainGlobe-A total of 3.50 inches of rain fell in two and a half hour. This heavy rain produced some standing water in a pasture.
May 2014HailGlobe-no account filed
April 2009HailGlobe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Christie3.4 miles11
Willard6.4 miles12
Sidney7.1 miles11
Neillsville7.3 miles11
Tioga7.4 miles12
Greenwood8.6 miles11
Columbia10.1 miles11
Kurth (historical)10.2 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 GlobeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5570950The 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 1565588. 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.