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New Amsterdam, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Holland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54636. It stands on New Channel. The Survey maps it on the Holmen quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

New Amsterdam within La Crosse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of New Amsterdam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200504
4 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19-0479
2 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19-0471
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-0431
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1826
3 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of New Amsterdam: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Kings Bluff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Black River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eichman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
G Stetzer Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gibbs Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H Ryder Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Ryder Sand & Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Harold Ryder Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
L Lakey Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tank Creek Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in La Crosse County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Amsterdam in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
June 2020HailNew Amsterdam$2,100,000Hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter fell in New Amsterdam.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam$35,000no account filed
August 2010LightningNew Amsterdam$5,000Lightning hit a large staple holding the wooden trusses together in the attic of a house. The fire was confined by firefighters to the attic.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam$3,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam$1,500no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam$500no account filed
April 2013Heavy RainNew Amsterdam-The COOP observer in the Town of Holland reported 2.17 inches of rain.
September 2010FloodNew Amsterdam-A National Weather Service employee measured 3.28 inches of rain in two hours (2100 CST to 2300 CST) and reported streets flooded in the New Amsterdam area. Water also covered Losey Boulevard between La Crosse and Main Streets in La Crosse and ditches were overflowing into yards along County Road V.
August 2012HailNew Amsterdam-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Crosse 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
Brice Prairie3.2 miles13
Holmen3.5 miles13
Midway4.8 miles13
Council Bay5.4 miles11
Sunset Point (historical)6.0 miles13
Lakeview (historical)6.6 miles13
French Island Village7.5 miles13
Onalaska8.0 miles17

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 New AmsterdamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7005328The 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 1570198. 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.