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Newton, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Newton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53063. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland East quadrangle.

Newton within Manitowoc County

On record in Newton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Newton in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning4
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
29 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73
27 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71
13 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19336
29 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19239
13 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19200

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Newton: 1 producer. All of them 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
Fricke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2005: 2 hail. 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
May 2005HailNewton-no account filed
June 2001HailNewton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Northeim1.5 miles9
Duveneck1.8 miles9
Clover3.3 miles9
Newtonburg4.4 miles8
Osman5.3 miles9
Cleveland5.6 miles9
Rube5.6 miles8
University Village Heights5.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1570264. 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.