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Johnsburg, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Taycheedah town. It lies in ZIP code area 53049. The Survey maps it on the Brothertown quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Johnsburg within Fond du Lac County

On record in Johnsburg

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

6,126 words on this township

The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880; Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Taycheedah Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Taycheedah Town - 6,126 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Johnsburg in 2018, burning about 30 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018053
24 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018057
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018040
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018037
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources38
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018036
25 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018035

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Johnsburg: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Silica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Abler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elmer Fuhrmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John L. Schmitz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsburg in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindJohnsburg$10,000Two electrical wooden poles blown over by downburst winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJohnsburg$5,000A storage shed was destroyed.
August 2021Heavy RainJohnsburg-Some flooding of roads in the Marytown area.
July 2020HailJohnsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fond du Lac 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
Malone1.2 miles12
Pipe2.8 miles12
Calvary3.2 miles10
Winnebago Heights3.2 miles12
Highland Park3.3 miles12
Silica3.3 miles12
Calumet Harbor3.3 miles12
Winnebago Park3.4 miles12

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 JohnsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6268089The 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 1567207. 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.