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Grellton, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Milford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53094. The Survey maps it on the Richwood quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Grellton within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

276 words on this township

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Milford Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Milford Town - 276 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Grellton between 2010 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
19 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1901800
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001619
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources257
30 May 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801057
3 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20065
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources153
11 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000663

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grellton in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008LightningGrellton1 killedLightning struck and killed a boy watching the storms outside. He lived on Ebenezer Road in the Civil Town of Watertown.
April 2026HailGrellton-Trained spotter reports 1.75 inch diameter hail south of Watertown.
October 2022Tornado (EF0)Grellton-Path was initially observed using the combination of radar data and Sentinel satellite data. The following ground survey found the damage to a few trees with the main path going through a yet to be combined corn field.
July 2021Tornado (EF0)Grellton-This was 1 of 17 tornadoes to occur in Wisconsin on the night of July 28th into the early morning hours of July 29th. This was the 11th overall tornado for the event. A line of storms developed in northern Wisconsin and pushed south into southern Wisconsin in the overnight hours of the 28th into the 29th of July with mainly brief tornadoes and damaging winds occurring.| |This tornado began to the southwest of Watertown and mainly moved through rural areas to the south of the city. Some of the main damage was to a house/farm near Hilltop Rd and Horseshoe Rd, otherwise it was mainly tree and crop damage. The path cross Highway 26 near Ebenezer Rd and ended near Cattail Dr.
July 2021Tornado (EF0)Grellton-This was 1 of 17 tornadoes to occur in Wisconsin on the night of July 28th into the early morning hours of July 29th. This was the 12th overall tornado for the event. A line of storms developed in northern Wisconsin and pushed south into southern Wisconsin in the overnight hours of the 28th into the 29th of July with mainly brief tornadoes and damaging winds occurring. ||This tornado began near Highway 26 north of I-94 and eventually crossed I-94 near Saucer Dr. Mainly tree damage along this path.
April 2025HailGrellton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Ebenezer2.7 miles19
Milford3.9 miles15
Johnson Creek4.1 miles15
Watertown5.2 miles19
Hoopers Mill5.6 miles16
Aztalan5.8 miles15
Hubbleton6.4 miles16
Jefferson Junction6.8 miles15

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 GrelltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5607331The 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 1577622. 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.

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.