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Mosel, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mosel town. It lies in ZIP code area 53083. The Survey maps it on the Sheboygan North quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Mosel within Sheboygan County

On record in Mosel

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Mosel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3092
17 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2611
12 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3283
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1310
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1713
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1371
23 April 2018Smoking2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1292
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1211

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosel in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2026: 2 hail. 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
March 2026HailMosel-Picture of one inch hail provided.
April 2024HailMosel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Erdman1.5 miles9
Haven3.0 miles9
Sheboygan4.0 miles9
Howards Grove4.7 miles9
Kohler5.1 miles10
Indian Meadows6.2 miles9
Sheboygan Falls6.5 miles10
Edwards7.4 miles9

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 MoselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6915587The 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 1569766. 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.