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Pine Grove, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ledgeview town. It lies in ZIP code area 54311. The Survey maps it on the Bellevue quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Pine Grove within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
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
20 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6719
29 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2042
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources261
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4219
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113718
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources114118
22 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3719
24 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181899

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Butnick Quarry Ulmen #4Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Skalecki Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Grove in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindPine Grove-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Eaton. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2013Tornado (EF1)Pine Grove-A tornado formed in eastern Brown County at 12:59 am CDT and moved east-southeast into Kewaunee County. A couple dozen trees were damaged and uprooted (DI 28, DOD 2 and 3) before it moved into Kewaunee County at about 1:06 am CDT, 2.9 miles southwest of Pilsen. Average path width in Brown County was 75 yards.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Bellevue2.5 miles10
Langes Corners2.6 miles9
Glenmore2.9 miles10
Poland3.8 miles9
Kolb4.0 miles10
Shirley5.2 miles9
Buckman5.5 miles9
Denmark5.7 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 Pine GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195141The 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 1577769. 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.