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Poniatowski, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rietbrock town. The Survey maps it on the Edgar quadrangle.

Poniatowski within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Poniatowski between 1996 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources90220
8 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources61518
1 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60118
1 May 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources705
28 April 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Poniatowski: 12 occurrences, 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Athens Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frank Drewek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kildeer Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rib Falls Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rib Falls Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Swallow Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Aspen Road Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poniatowski in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPoniatowski$15,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a 100 foot by 60 foot pole barn west of Edgar. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2016Tornado (EF0)Poniatowski$5,000A brief tornado produced minor damage at a farm near Poniatowski. An old barn was pushed over by winds estimated at 60 mph. The tornado was rated EF0 and was on the ground for less than a tenth of a mile.
July 2024HailPoniatowski-Three inch hail fell in Poniatowski. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPoniatowski-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Poniatowski. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017HailPoniatowski-Quarter size hail fell east of Athens.

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Schnappsville2.2 miles12
Edgar4.9 miles7
Athens5.0 miles9
Rib Falls5.0 miles7
Wuertsburg6.1 miles12
Wien6.6 miles12
Corinth7.7 miles8
Swan8.0 miles12

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 PoniatowskiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4372145The 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 1571749. 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.