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Preble, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Green Bay City. It lies in ZIP code area 54302. It stands on Baird Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bellevue quadrangle.

Preble 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

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Preble between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2009982
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837896
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837880
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2008903
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837711
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181401
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007494
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007161

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Preble: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Bentonite. 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
Green Bay Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Hurlbut Calcium & Chemical CompanyLimestone, General, BentonitePlant
Skalecki Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gibson QuarryStoneUnknown
Katers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kraszewski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Preble in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2012: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
April 2010LightningPreble$500A lightning strike, nearly a mile away from a power substation in Green Bay, knocked the substation offline causing 2,316 Wisconsin Public Service customers to lose power during the evening. The outage resulted in traffic lights going dark on the east side of Green Bay during the evening commute. Police officers were needed to direct traffic until crews from the Public Works Department could install stop signs at intersections.
June 2012HailPreble-Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail east of Green Bay.
June 2012HailPreble-Penny size hail fell at The Woods Golf Club in East Green Bay.

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
Haevers Corners1.1 miles11
Allouez2.8 miles10
Green Bay3.0 miles9
Chapel Ridge4.2 miles11
Bellevue4.5 miles10
Kolb5.2 miles10
Ashwaubenon5.4 miles10
Bay Settlement5.7 miles11

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 PrebleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7239380The 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 1571910. 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.