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Melvina, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54619. It lies near Halls Valley. The Survey maps it on the Melvina quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Melvina within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Melvina fell from 104 to 93 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010104
202093-11 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

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 Melvina: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Schmitz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Smiths QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sullivan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melvina in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2008Flash FloodMelvina$1,350,000Mudslides forced the closure of some township roads.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMelvina$5,000The roof was blown off a barn.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMelvina$3,000no account filed
May 2020Heavy RainMelvina-A rainfall report of 3.70 was received from the Melvina area.
August 2018Heavy RainMelvina-In Melvina, 8.66 inches of rain fell.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMelvina-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Melvina.
March 2007HailMelvina-no account filed
June 2001HailMelvina-no account filed
June 2001HailMelvina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Cashton4.4 miles14
Saint Marys4.5 miles11
Portland5.2 miles13
Leon5.8 miles14
Farmers Valley6.6 miles12
Norwalk8.2 miles11
Sparta9.8 miles14
Oil City10.5 miles11

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 MelvinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3156124The 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 1569329. 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.

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.