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Lemonweir, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lemonweir town. It lies in ZIP code area 53948. It stands on Sevenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mauston quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Lemonweir within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Lemonweir between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 burning50
Equipment and vehicle use47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBORDER LINE
6 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMILE 74 #1 BLUE
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMILE 74 #2 YELLOW
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMILE 74 #3 ORANGE
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMILE 74 #4 RED
1 September 2000Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemonweir in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2011HailLemonweir$25,000Up to baseball sized hail fell just east of Mauston.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLemonweir$500Large tree down.
July 2025Tornado (EF0)Lemonweir-This brief tornado crossed Interstate 90 and was captured on video. Some corn and small tree branches were damaged.
April 2011HailLemonweir-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Mauston3.3 miles12
Lindina7.1 miles12
Lyndon Station8.0 miles16
New Lisbon10.2 miles12
Indian Heights12.0 miles16
Kelly13.3 miles12
Elroy13.9 miles11
Orange Mill14.0 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 LemonweirAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6521434The 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 1567965. 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.