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Poland, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Eaton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54311. The Survey maps it on the Poland quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Poland within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Poland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
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
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
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources114118
22 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3719
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18019
9 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2090

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Poland: 1 past producer. 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
Three Corners Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poland in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
June 2017Funnel CloudPoland-A narrow funnel cloud formed north of Denmark in eastern Brown County. The funnel was visible from other nearby counties.

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
Henrysville2.1 miles9
Coppens Corner2.4 miles9
Buckman3.0 miles9
Pine Grove3.8 miles10
Humboldt4.0 miles9
Langes Corners4.4 miles9
Sugar Bush4.5 miles9
Bellevue5.0 miles10

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 PolandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7208885The 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 1571732. 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.