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Paoli, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Montrose town. It lies in ZIP code area 53508. The Survey maps it on the Verona quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Paoli within Dane County

On record in Paoli

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

8 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

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Paoli between 2004 and 2020, burning about 16 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19-109
25 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRACTOR FIRE
25 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources471
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources40
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18427
16 April 2004Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18335
1 April 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18329

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Paoli: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
FreitagStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paoli in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2011HailPaoli-A trained spotter reported hail near Paoli that was measured 3/4 of an inch in diameter that fell from strong to severe thunderstorms moving through Dane County during the early morning hours of of September 3rd.
July 2006Heavy RainPaoli-Heavy rains of 4 to 5 inches fell over the area just southwest and south of Paoli within 90 minutes, based on WSR-88D Doppler radar estimates. There were no reports of flash flooding that would result in property or crop damage. However, some small streams in the area probably flooded for a an hour or so, and then receded. In addition, some low-lying roads probably had some water on them. Refer to the Madison flash flood event write-up to see a rainfall graphic of Dane County for July 27th.
May 2004HailPaoli-no account filed
July 1994HailPaoli-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
Basco1.3 miles15
Fitchburg3.6 miles20
Verona4.3 miles15
Montrose (historical)4.3 miles15
Oak Hall4.8 miles20
Belleville4.9 miles14
Five Points (historical)6.0 miles17
Mount Vernon7.1 miles14

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 PaoliAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7132120The 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 1571009. 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.