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Grand Marsh, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in New Chester town. It lies in ZIP code area 53936. The Survey maps it on the Grand Marsh quadrangle.

Grand Marsh within Adams 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Grand Marsh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 383 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use69
Debris and open burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
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
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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 Grand Marsh: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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
Adams County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Butera PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
D. Patterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Werner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Marsh in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
July 1997Flash FloodGrand Marsh$30,000no account filed
September 1998HailGrand Marsh$15,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGrand Marsh$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Grand Marsh.
August 2025HailGrand Marsh-The public reported 1 inch hail 3 miles south-southwest of Grand Marsh.
August 2024Flash FloodGrand Marsh-Law enforcement reported flooding along Highway G in Adams County.
August 2018HailGrand Marsh-Up to quarter sized hail fell south of Brooks.
May 2012HailGrand Marsh-Quarter to golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of County Road B and State Highway 82.
April 2011HailGrand Marsh-Penny sized hail accumulated to a depth of an inch and a half on the road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGrand Marsh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Springbluff (historical)2.9 miles11
New Chester (historical)4.0 miles10
Adams Center (historical)5.2 miles10
Brooks5.4 miles10
Brookside6.1 miles10
Easton6.3 miles10
Fordham (historical)6.8 miles11
Adams7.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1565712. 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.