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Port Andrew, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 53518. It stands on Byrds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue River quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Port Andrew within Richland County

On record in Port Andrew

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Port Andrew between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 were 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 burning40
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
25 September 1999Smoking1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGARNER LAKE FIRE
20 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2007Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Port Andrew: 3 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
Blue River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Excelsior QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hogskin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Andrew in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 hail, 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPort Andrew-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Port Andrew.
August 2006HailPort Andrew-no account filed
June 1998HailPort Andrew-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Byrds Creek1.3 miles10
Sand Prairie2.3 miles10
Westport3.9 miles10
Excelsior4.4 miles10
Basswood5.2 miles12
Wild Rose5.6 miles10
Balmoral5.6 miles10
Tavera6.7 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 Port AndrewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7230475The 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 1571794. 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.