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Norway Grove, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Vienna town. It lies in ZIP code area 53532. The Survey maps it on the Waunakee quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Norway Grove within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Norway Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1060
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1183
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKLEINERT ROAD
18 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2007Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources608

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Norway Grove: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Endres QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Francis Nordness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schumacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norway Grove in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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 2017HailNorway Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Morrisonville3.0 miles12
De Forest3.1 miles24
Windsor3.9 miles24
Lake Windsor4.2 miles24
Waunakee4.8 miles24
Dane5.2 miles22
Catfish (historical)6.7 miles24
Token Creek6.9 miles24

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 Norway GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7060838The 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 1577757. 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.