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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.

Millville within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

43 since 1992

Regional 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUSTANG FIRE
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAIRPIN
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2019Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGRANDFATHER PINE
1 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUSH HOLLOW
6 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOUNT HOPE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Flash FloodMillville$265,000Flash flooding affected about 40 homes across parts of mainly northern Grant County. One home was destroyed. Several bridges and roads were also damaged.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Millville$750A 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 2006Thunderstorm WindMillville$500no account filed
June 2015HailMillville-Half dollar sized hail fell just south of Wauzeka.
April 2014HailMillville-no account filed
October 2006HailMillville-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMillville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Mount Hope5.9 miles15
Patch Grove6.8 miles16
Woodman7.9 miles10
Brodtville8.3 miles12
Werley8.8 miles10
Shady Dell9.0 miles15
Mount Ida9.9 miles15
Bloomington10.2 miles16

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 MillvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6860115The 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.