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Helenville, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Jefferson town. It lies in ZIP code area 53137. The Survey maps it on the Helenville quadrangle.

Helenville within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

18,033 words on this township

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

congre^iion observed their Sabbath-Day services in the dwellings of the members, which were continued until the date above designated, when they purchased about two acres of ground on Christ Mountain, two and one-half miles east of Jefferson, on a portion of which they erected a small frame Church, the remainder of the purchase being reserved for burial purposes. The church was completed and consecrated under the name of St. Johns, and served as a place ol worship for sixty-four families, until an increase in the number of parishioners necessitated the erection of a more commodious edifice. The Rev. Mr. Mayer, minister of the Lutheran congr^ation at Helenville. became the first Pastor of that denomination, until the installation ol the Rev. Carl Aug. Biel. his successor (also from Helen viUeX who officiated for several years, being followed by the Rev. Mr. Zink. who ministered to the spiritual wants of the congregations in Jefferson and Helenville until his death.

Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jefferson Town.

Fires near this place

14 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Helenville between 2014 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources137
24 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1923
31 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources87
30 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH PEAT FIRE
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources68
7 April 2018Debris and open burning253 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH 1
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2017
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1916

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Helenville: 1 past producer. None of them 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
Janke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Helenville in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2016LightningHelenville$150,000Lightning struck a home causing a significant fire. The fire department reported the home as a total loss. Two people escaped the fire unharmed.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHelenville$15,000An NWS employee reported multiple homes with roof shingle damage from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 65 knots (75 mph).
June 2022HailHelenville-no account filed
June 2022HailHelenville-no account filed
June 2008HailHelenville-no account filed
March 1994HailHelenville-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
Rome4.2 miles31
Slabtown4.6 miles31
Farmington4.7 miles18
Jefferson Junction5.1 miles15
Jefferson5.7 miles15
Sullivan5.9 miles18
Johnson Creek5.9 miles15
Hebron6.0 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1566277. 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.