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Mapleton, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lac La Belle Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53066. The Survey maps it on the Stonebank quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Mapleton within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mapleton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 107 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1817
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800130
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800131
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800125
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800126
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1825
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1807
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800764

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mapleton: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 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
Fredericks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vogt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 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 2000Flash FloodMapleton$50,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMapleton$1,000A 8 inch diameter hardwood tree down.

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Monterey2.2 miles22
Stonebank3.6 miles22
Okauchee Lake4.0 miles23
Lac La Belle4.4 miles18
Okauchee4.7 miles23
North Lake5.0 miles22
Oconomowoc5.1 miles23
Oconomowoc Lake5.1 miles23

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 MapletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6754073The 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 1569008. 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.