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Holland, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Holland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54130. The Survey maps it on the Hilbert quadrangle. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Holland within Brown County

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

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Holland between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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 burning2

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
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
5 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBU18031
16 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0000WR5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holland: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kaukauna Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Soyburn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holland in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
July 2024Flash FloodHolland-Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches in southwestern Brown County caused street flooding along with road closures and stranded vehicles during the afternoon in Greenleaf.
August 2013Tornado (EF1)Holland-The tornado that touched down in Outagamie County, 3.5 miles east of Greenville at 12:38 am CDT, briefly moved across far southwest Brown County near Holland. A few trees were knocked over by the tornado in Brown County (DI 28, DOD 3). The average path width was 150 yards. The tornado then moved into Calumet County at 12:50 am CDT.
June 1998LightningHolland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Askeaton3.5 miles8
Wrightstown5.3 miles8
Greenleaf6.0 miles8
Sniderville7.2 miles8
Little Rapids9.4 miles8
Morrison10.3 miles9
Wayside11.6 miles9
Lark12.6 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 HollandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714463The 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 1566546. 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.