New Miner, Wisconsin
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Armenia town. It lies in ZIP code area 54646. The Survey maps it on the New Miner quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Necedah quadrangle1:48000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS New Miner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of New Miner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1996 | Smoking | 2.3 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | THURSDAY FIRE |
| 4 August 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 1994 | Natural | 2.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 66 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Miner in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Hail | New Miner | $25,000 | Up to 3 inch diameter hail was reported northeast of New Miner. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Miner | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in New Miner. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Miner | $2,000 | Trees were blown down northeast of New Miner. |
| April 2022 | Hail | New Miner | - | Quarter sized hail fell west of Monroe Center. |
| June 2016 | Hail | New Miner | - | Quarter sized hail was reported northeast of Necedah. |
| June 2016 | Hail | New Miner | - | Golfball sized hail was reported northeast of Necedah. |
| July 2010 | Hail | New Miner | - | The public reported one inch diameter size hail in the Township of Armenia in northeast Juneau County. |
| March 1998 | Hail | New Miner | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sprague | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Finley | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Necedah | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Meadow Valley | 10.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cloverdale | 12.5 miles | 14 | |
| Kelly | 14.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cutler | 14.5 miles | 14 | |
| Mather | 14.6 miles | 10 |
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 Miner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7010433 | The 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 1570227. 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.





