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Herman Center, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Herman town. It lies in ZIP code area 53050. The Survey maps it on the Nenno quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Herman Center within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

1,468 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Herman Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Herman Town - 1,468 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Herman Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
22 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources130
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000023
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3618010
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800020
20 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources83
27 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Herman Center: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Copper, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Mayville MineIron, Copper, LeadPast Producer1892, 1928
Mayville White Lime QuarryCalciumProducer
Merget PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron Ridge MineIronPast Producer1849, 1914
Iron Ridge MineIronPast Producer1849
Mayville MineIronPast Producer1892

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herman Center in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 2022FloodHerman Center-Flooding on County Road U north of County Road S. One vehicle stranded in flood waters.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Herman Center-A trained storm spotter witnessed a brief EF0 tornado that touched down about 2.7 miles northeast of Herman Center in Dodge County, just north of the intersection of County Road DW and Freedom Road. The tornado traveled less than one-tenth of a mile before dissipating. The maximum path width of the tornado was 20 yards with an average path width of 10 yards. The spotter noted small tree limbs snapped off, and tall grass flattened in a swirl pattern by the winds from the tornado. The EF0 rating was determined by using DI 27(TH), DOD1 with winds of 65 mph. The exact location was 43.4497/ -88.44074.

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Huilsburg2.1 miles15
Hochheim3.0 miles15
Iron Ridge4.0 miles10
Neda4.1 miles10
Woodland4.3 miles9
Rubicon5.1 miles15
Mayville7.1 miles10
Theresa7.1 miles9

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 Herman CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5739619The 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 1566316. 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.