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Kiel, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Kiel City. It lies in ZIP code area 53042. The Survey maps it on the Kiel quadrangle. 3,932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Kiel within Manitowoc County

On record in Kiel

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

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kiel between 2018 and 2019, burning under an 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5056
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5122
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5123
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5115
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4962

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kiel: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Elkhart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kiel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
L. Fries PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Neils PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schnelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
School PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wiskerchen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Witt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zimmerman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kiel in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2018Tornado (EF1)Kiel$75,000The tornado that began just inside the Calumet County border near Meggers Road moved into Manitowoc County and destroyed a barn (DI 1, DOD 5,6). The tornado produced sporadic tree damage along its path and dissipated less than two minutes after it formed.
June 1998LightningKiel$20,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKiel$3,000An isolated thunderstorm moved across southwest Manitowoc County near Kiel and produced a wind gust over 60 mph. The wind knocked over two utility poles, blew a trampoline 500 feet from its yard, ripped off the railings from a backyard deck, and flattened a grass field.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKiel$1,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKiel$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindKiel-Thunderstorm winds snapped a tree and uprooted another tree in Kiel. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar.
August 2023HailKiel-Quarter size hail fell near Kiel.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKiel-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees and power lines in Kiel. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKiel-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in the Kiel area. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKiel-Thunderstorm winds downed trees around Kiel. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
December 2015Heavy RainKiel-Several rounds of heavy rain that moved across Manitowoc County produced 3.00 inches of rainfall in Kiel.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindKiel-Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down in the town of Kiel.
May 2012HailKiel-An isolated thunderstorm produced a brief period of half-dollar size hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindKiel-High winds from thunderstorms downed trees and power lines.
June 2006HailKiel-no account filed
June 2006Funnel CloudKiel-no account filed
September 2000HailKiel-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKiel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Rockville2.1 miles9
Millhome4.1 miles9
Louis Corners4.7 miles9
Steinthal5.1 miles10
School Hill7.9 miles9
Saint Nazianz8.9 miles10
Spring Valley10.6 miles9
Meeme10.8 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 KielAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570473The 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 1567461. 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.