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Maple Grove, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Franklin town. It lies in ZIP code area 54230. The Survey maps it on the Reedsville quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Maple Grove within Manitowoc County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Maple Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
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
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources09
22 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018019
24 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources17
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
25 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9
24 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8
21 March 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Maple Grove: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 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
Grimm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Grimm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O Connell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple Grove in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 flash 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
May 2012Flash FloodMaple Grove$50,000Flash flooding shut down access to the Town of Rockwood. Three homes sustained basement damage from the flood.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMaple Grove-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 74 mph. Thunderstorm winds also snapped a large pine tree in half and produced damage to machine shed doors. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.

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
North Grimms2.7 miles9
Reedsville3.0 miles9
Grimms3.2 miles9
Taus3.3 miles9
Menchalville3.3 miles9
Cato4.6 miles9
Whitelaw6.2 miles9
Cato Falls6.5 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 Maple GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6753882The 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 1568970. 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.