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Nasbro, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lomira town. It lies in ZIP code area 53006. The Survey maps it on the Mayville North quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Nasbro within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

3,352 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lomira Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lomira Town - 3,352 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Nasbro between 2009 and 2020, burning about 45 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 May 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHERESA SITE 2
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18062
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19023
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20012
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeFINALS WF
19 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18042
27 November 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHILLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Nasbro: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Farmersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oakfield QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Western Lime-Knowles QuarryCalciumProducer
Byron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
El Dais Stone Company PlantStonePast Producer
Farmersville QuarryStoneUnknown
Hoppe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nasbro in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 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 2018Tornado (EF2)Nasbro$169,000Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This was the strongest tornado of the event and went just north of the Village of Brownsville. The worst damage was to a Canadian National Railway communications tower which was crumpled over. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well.
August 2018Tornado (EF1)Nasbro-Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went through the southern side of the Village of Brownsville and ended at the Quadgraphics facility near Hwy 175. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well.

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Knowles1.5 miles10
Brownsville1.7 miles9
Farmersville2.9 miles10
Lomira3.2 miles9
LeRoy3.3 miles10
Kekoskee5.4 miles10
Theresa6.1 miles9
Theresa Station6.2 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 NasbroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6966628The 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 1570104. 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.