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Pilsen, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Montpelier town. It lies in ZIP code area 54217. It lies near Montpelier Hills. The Survey maps it on the Stangelville quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Pilsen within Kewaunee 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Pilsen between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0F19151
13 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources115418
8 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources15
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources114118
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesF200044
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000164

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pilsen: 14 past producers, 3 occurrences. 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
Delleman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duescher Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E Seidl Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J Hrabik Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J Kudick Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Wessely Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Wessely Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Theys Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilsen in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
August 2013Tornado (EF1)Pilsen$50,000The tornado that formed in Brown County at 12:59 am CDT continued east-southeast into Kewaunee County, crossing the county line 2.9 miles southwest of Pilsen at 1:06 am CDT. The tornado caused the walls and roof of a barn to collapse (DI 1, DOD 6) and damaged the tops of two silos. In addition, the tornado damaged and uprooted several dozen trees along its path. Average path width in Kewaunee County was 75 yards.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPilsen-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Montpelier. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2022HailPilsen-Nickel size hail fell near Pilsen. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindPilsen-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on county road V, south of Luxemburg.

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
Cherneyville1.1 miles8
Ellisville2.4 miles8
Stangelville3.7 miles8
Neuern4.0 miles8
Krok5.0 miles8
Curran6.1 miles8
East Krok6.6 miles8
Luxemburg6.6 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 PilsenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7194514The 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 1571412. 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.