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Johnsonville, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Sheboygan Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 53085. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Johnsonville within Sheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4,477 words on this township

History of Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan Falls Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sheboygan Falls Town - 4,477 words.

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Johnsonville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources352
4 August 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources251
29 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources240
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources214
15 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources193
12 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018009
7 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources127
1 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan 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 Johnsonville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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
Sheboygan County Agricultural DeptStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jones PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsonville in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 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 2025FloodJohnsonville$2,000Numerous street flooding in Plymouth.
March 1998FloodJohnsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Franklin2.6 miles10
Plymouth Country View Estates4.5 miles9
Plymouth5.0 miles9
Rhine5.1 miles10
Howards Grove5.3 miles9
Ada5.5 miles9
New Paris5.6 miles9
Elkhart Lake6.2 miles10

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 JohnsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6268561The 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 1567252. 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.