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Newburg, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Newburg Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53090. The Survey maps it on the Newburg quadrangle. 1,142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Newburg within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

22 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Newburg between 2002 and 2020, burning about 22 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002606
17 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2019Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1901835
15 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19017
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18017
26 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20038
26 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUD LAKE BOARDWALK FIRE
20 April 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20027

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Newburg: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ciriak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeland SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O and W Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rau Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newburg in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNewburg$4,000Multiple trees uprooted or blown over in the Cheeseville area.
July 1994HailNewburg-A line of severe thunderstorms packing winds to 60 mph and golf ball-sized hail rumbled through northeast Wisconsin downing many trees and power lines. In Bellevue (Brown County) $100,000 in wind damage took place to a garage and convenience store. Violent winds also damaged a farm one mile south of Waupaca (Waupaca County). An isolated severe thunderstorm knocked down many trees and power lines and caused minor property damage in Shullsburg (Lafayette County).
August 2015HailNewburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Myra2.8 miles15
Cheeseville3.1 miles15
Fillmore4.7 miles15
Keowns6.4 miles15
Orchard Grove6.8 miles15
Barton7.2 miles15
Boltonville7.2 miles11
West Bend7.3 miles15

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 NewburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1882836The 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 1570249. 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.