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Norman, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54216. It stands on Thorn Apple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Two Creeks quadrangle. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Norman within Kewaunee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Norman between 2018 and 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
14 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources17
12 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources16
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Norman: 13 occurrences, 12 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Boulanger Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cherneyville Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Collegiate Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
D Cherney Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
D Thielbar Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Delleman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E Brusky Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
E Seidl Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norman in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorman-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Norman. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2013HailNorman-Quarter size hail fell south of Kewaunee along the shore of Lake Michigan.
June 2013HailNorman-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail near Norman.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNorman-Trees were blown down by straight-line thunderstorm winds in the southern part of the county.
March 1998HailNorman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
East Krok4.0 miles8
Krok4.3 miles8
Stangelville4.8 miles8
Bolt5.8 miles8
Birchwood6.3 miles8
Ellisville7.4 miles8
Curran7.6 miles8
Cherneyville8.0 miles8

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 NormanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7051878The 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 1570336. 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.