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Gravesville, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Chilton City. It lies in ZIP code area 53014. The Survey maps it on the Chilton quadrangle.

Gravesville within Calumet County

On record in Gravesville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gravesville between 2010 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources84
19 October 2010Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gravesville: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Chilton QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Arnold Ortlepp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haepner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schneider PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gravesville in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 lightning. 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
August 2009LightningGravesville$75,000Lightning struck a home in Collins at about 4:30 AM CDT, which started a two story farm house on fire. The occupants were able to safely evacuate. The fire did major damage to the structure. Part of the roof collapsed and a portion of the second floor fell onto the first floor.

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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
Chilton1.0 miles9
Hayton1.9 miles9
Brant4.0 miles9
Charlesburg4.8 miles10
Potter6.3 miles9
Kloten6.3 miles10
New Holstein6.8 miles10
Meggers7.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1565787. 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.