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Meridean, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Peru town. It lies in ZIP code area 54755. It stands on Meridean Slough. The Survey maps it on the Meridean quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Meridean within Dunn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Meridean between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
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
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources32
2 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020008
8 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
28 October 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 October 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUNNVILLE WA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meridean: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Butler Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chippewa River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elton Talford Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Falkner Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fall Creek Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Robert Talford Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dunn County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meridean in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Meridean1 hurt, $1,900,000Chemical fertilizer plant northwest of Elk Mound sustained most of the severe damage. One house and a mobile home near Elk Mound were also destroyed. 7 other homes damaged. One man injured by flying glass.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMeridean-Power lines were downed.
August 1997HailMeridean-Severe hail damage to thousands of acres of crops around Spring Brook township. Car damage also reported.
August 1996HailMeridean-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunn 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
Old Tyrone (historical)3.2 miles12
Falls City4.2 miles12
Rock Falls5.5 miles12
Red Cedar6.0 miles12
Dunnville6.2 miles12
Caryville6.2 miles13
Downsville7.9 miles13
Elk Mound10.7 miles13

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 MerideanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6819236The 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 1569363. 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.