BlockHaven, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mosel town. It lies in ZIP code area 53083. It stands on Meeme Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sheboygan North quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sheboygan North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sheboygan North quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Sheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Haven between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2939 |
| 19 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3092 |
| 17 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2611 |
| 23 April 2018 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1292 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19 |
| 12 December 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 98 |
| 4 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3567 |
| 30 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3486 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haven in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haven | 1 hurt, $1,000 | A flag pole fell on an individual, who suffered a broken arm, at the Whistling Straits golf course during the PGA Championship. The leaderboard was also blown over. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Haven | $50,000 | Water over roads in low-lying areas all over the county with some closures. Many people in the City of Sheboygan had water in their basements due to the storm sewer backing up. |
| October 2019 | Flash Flood | Haven | $10,000 | Several roads were flooded and closed across the county after several inches of rain. This included highway 144 from highway 28 to highway I west of Random Lake. Flooding of streets in Plymouth and Sheboygan with water up to 2 feet in some intersections. |
| October 2019 | Flash Flood | Haven | $3,000 | Several roads were flooded and closed across the county after several inches of rain. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haven | $1,000 | Construction equipment blown over between mile markers 133 and 134 on I-43. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Haven | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Haven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5686552 | The 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 1578555. 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.