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Pella, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Pella town. It lies in ZIP code area 54950. The Survey maps it on the Clintonville North quadrangle.

Pella within Shawano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pella between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
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
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources819181
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources704181
5 June 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMALUEG RD FIRE
20 May 1996Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSWAMP GRASS
11 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pella: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 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
Apple Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Apple Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deger Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kriewaldt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Lane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spencer Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Westphal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zimmerman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pella in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 1999: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1999Funnel CloudPella-no account filed
May 1998HailPella-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Leopolis2.8 miles7
Caroline4.9 miles8
Lyndhurst6.9 miles7
Thornton7.0 miles8
Belle Plaine7.5 miles8
Tilleda7.6 miles7
Gresham7.7 miles7
Red River7.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1571159. 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.