Millville, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Millville town. It lies in ZIP code area 53827. It stands on Warner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wauzeka West quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Wauzeka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wauzeka quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Wauzeka West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Richland Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MUSTANG FIRE |
| 4 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HAIRPIN |
| 2 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | GRANDFATHER PINE |
| 1 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BUSH HOLLOW |
| 6 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MOUNT HOPE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millville in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Millville | $265,000 | Flash flooding affected about 40 homes across parts of mainly northern Grant County. One home was destroyed. Several bridges and roads were also damaged. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Millville | $750 | A tornado touched down in Grant County across the Wisconsin River from Wauzeka, WI (Crawford County). The tornado touch down was brief, as witnessed by a Grant County sheriff, and in a fairly remote area of Wisconsin DNR managed land. The touch down was about 1.8 miles south of Wauzeka in northern Grant County at 1:52 p.m. CDT. The tornado was recorded as an EF0 intensity (65 to 85 mph winds). This supercell thunderstorm continued to produce funnels on its track east along the Wisconsin River through Boscobel and Muscoda (Grant County). No additional tornadoes were confirmed however. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millville | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Millville | - | Half dollar sized hail fell just south of Wauzeka. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Millville | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Millville | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Hope | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Patch Grove | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Woodman | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Brodtville | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Werley | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Shady Dell | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Ida | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Bloomington | 10.2 miles | 16 |
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 Millville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6860115 | The 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 1577729. 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.







