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Kneeland, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Raymond Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53108. The Survey maps it on the North Cape quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Kneeland within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

5,635 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 Raymond Village covers the township.

Read the chapter on Raymond Village - 5,635 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Kneeland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2614
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001223
5 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1376
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1340
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources927
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18023

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kneeland in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 6 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindKneeland$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds ripped portions of a roof off of a home. An old barn was also destroyed by the strong winds.
May 2020FloodKneeland$5,000The Root River at Raymond and across northeast Racine County flooded after several inches of rainfall in the basin. The Root River at Raymond crested at 10.97 feet on May 18th. Floodwaters are in the backyards of some homes in the Town of Raymond. There is widespread flooding of lowland and agricultural land throughout the basin. Floodwaters cover a baseball diamond on 6 Mile Road. On May 18th, Nicholson Road, which crosses the Root River near the Racine and Milwaukee County line, was closed due to flooding. Husher Creek, which flows into the Root River, also flooded and was covering Highway 38 south of Seven Mile Road.
April 2013FloodKneeland$3,000The Root River Canal near Raymond experienced minor flooding as it crested at 10.41 feet, or 1.41 feet above the flood stage of 9 feet at 1 PM on April 18th.
May 2020FloodKneeland$1,000The Root River Canal at Raymond reached minor flood stage, cresting at 10.57 feet on April 30th. This flooding continued into May 1st. Floodwaters cover a baseball diamond on 6 Mile Road. There is extensive flooding to lowland and agricultural land in the Town of Raymond.
April 2020FloodKneeland$1,000The Root River Canal at Raymond reached minor flood stage, cresting at 10.57 feet on April 30th. This flooding continued into May 1st. Floodwaters cover a baseball diamond on 6 Mile Road. There is extensive flooding to lowland and agricultural land in the Town of Raymond.
October 2018FloodKneeland-The Root River Canal at Raymond reached minor flood stage, cresting at 10.28 feet the early morning of October 2nd. Floodwaters cover a baseball diamond on 6 Mile Road. There is extensive flooding to lowland and agricultural land in the Town of Raymond.
October 2018FloodKneeland-The Root River Canal at Raymond reached minor flood stage, cresting at 9.89 feet the late afternoon of October 6th. Floodwaters cover a baseball diamond on 6 Mile Road. There is extensive flooding to lowland and agricultural land in the Town of Raymond.

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
Raymond1.8 miles17
Kilbournville3.2 miles17
Union Church3.4 miles17
Thompsonville4.4 miles17
Caledonia4.6 miles17
North Cape4.7 miles17
Yorkville5.9 miles18
Husher6.1 miles17

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 KneelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6421899The 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 1567568. 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.

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.