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Montfort, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Montfort Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53569. The Survey maps it on the Montfort quadrangle. 705 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Montfort within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Montfort between 2002 and 2019, burning about 124 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBLOCKHOUSE
21 April 2007Recreation and ceremony13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY I
23 March 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2003Debris and open burning9.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Montfort: 11 past producers, 11 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Jones and Snow MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Jones and Snow MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Steppler Farm ProspectCopper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Red Jacket MineLead, ZincPast Producer1906
St.Anthony MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Near Blue RiverCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Blue RiverCopperOccurrence
Centerville MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Johns MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Kroll MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montfort in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
April 2005LightningMontfort1 hurtno account filed
September 2025HailMontfort$62,000A storm chaser reported 2 inch diameter hail 2 mile south of Montfort.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMontfort$58,000Three mobile homes were pushed off their foundations southwest of Montfort.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMontfort$40,000no account filed
March 2017HailMontfort$28,000Ping pong ball sized hail fell in Montfort. The hail shredded the siding on one side of a house.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMontfort$10,000Emergency management reported a hog barn damaged 3 miles west-southwest of Montfort.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMontfort$1,500no account filed
April 2026HailMontfort-The public reported dime sized hail near Montfort. This report was relayed via mPING.
September 2025HailMontfort-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail 1 mile north of Montfort. The report was relayed via NWS Chat.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMontfort-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Montfort.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMontfort-An estimated 80 mph wind gust occurred in Montfort.
May 2017HailMontfort-no account filed
June 2014HailMontfort-no account filed
July 2009HailMontfort-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
Centerville3.1 miles10
Livingston4.9 miles13
Preston6.0 miles15
Annaton6.9 miles15
Castle Rock7.4 miles10
Arthur8.7 miles14
Lancaster Junction9.6 miles15
Stitzer10.5 miles15

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 MontfortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1974923The 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 1569677. 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.