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Husher, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Caledonia Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53108. The Survey maps it on the Franksville quadrangle.

Husher within Racine County

On record in Husher

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

6,561 words on this township

Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871; The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Caledonia Village covers the township.

Read the chapter on Caledonia Village - 6,561 words.

Fires near this place

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Husher between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
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
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources262
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001898
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001426
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001423
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2317
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801254
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801249
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001223

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine 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 Husher: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Husher in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2000Tornado (F0)Husher$10,000no account filed
March 2017HailHusher-Dime size hail covering the ground.
May 2014HailHusher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
Caledonia1.6 miles17
Kilbournville3.1 miles17
Tabor3.2 miles16
Franksville3.9 miles17
Thompsonville3.9 miles17
Crestview4.5 miles16
Ives5.6 miles16
Kneeland6.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1566829. 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.