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Orchard Grove, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Farmington town. It lies in ZIP code area 53040. The Survey maps it on the West Bend quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Orchard Grove 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Orchard Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 72 acres 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
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
28 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources785
10 July 2018Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802296
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources838
1 May 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
29 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources755
28 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
26 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources753

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Orchard Grove: 1 occurrence. 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
Barton Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working 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
Saint Michaels1.5 miles12
Boltonville2.9 miles11
Cheeseville3.8 miles15
Young America4.0 miles15
Fillmore4.3 miles15
Barton4.3 miles15
Kewaskum4.9 miles12
West Bend5.5 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 Orchard GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7100186The 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 1570850. 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.