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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.

New Miner within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

91 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Natural1

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
18 September 1996Smoking2.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHURSDAY FIRE
4 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1994Natural2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2004Arson/incendiarism66 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022HailNew Miner$25,000Up to 3 inch diameter hail was reported northeast of New Miner.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Miner$2,000Trees were blown down in New Miner.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Miner$2,000Trees were blown down northeast of New Miner.
April 2022HailNew Miner-Quarter sized hail fell west of Monroe Center.
June 2016HailNew Miner-Quarter sized hail was reported northeast of Necedah.
June 2016HailNew Miner-Golfball sized hail was reported northeast of Necedah.
July 2010HailNew Miner-The public reported one inch diameter size hail in the Township of Armenia in northeast Juneau County.
March 1998HailNew Miner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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
Sprague5.3 miles12
Finley6.1 miles12
Necedah10.1 miles12
Meadow Valley10.3 miles12
Cloverdale12.5 miles14
Kelly14.4 miles12
Cutler14.5 miles14
Mather14.6 miles10

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 MinerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7010433The 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.