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Leeman, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Maine town. It lies in ZIP code area 54170. The Survey maps it on the Leeman quadrangle.

Leeman within Outagamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Leeman between 1994 and 2019, burning about 102 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018016
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarism24 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNAVARINO
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8
4 April 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2009Debris and open burning3.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 November 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 October 1999Recreation and ceremony65 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie 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 Leeman: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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
J Klement Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leeman in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Leeman-A tornado formed at 6:09 pm CDT near Leeman in north-central Outagamie County, continued northeast and entering Shawano County at 6:11 pm CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 8.2362 miles long, with a width of 80 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 94 mph.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Nichols5.0 miles9
Black Creek8.7 miles8
Cicero9.0 miles9
Shiocton9.0 miles8
Bear Creek9.5 miles7
Binghamton11.1 miles8
Sugar Bush11.5 miles7
Seymour12.7 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 LeemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6516311The 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 1577693. 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.