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Richford, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richford town. It lies in ZIP code area 54930. The Survey maps it on the Richford quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Richford within Waushara County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Richford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJD FIRE
29 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCUMBERLAND RD ARSON
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTECKBAUER
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMIDIAN FIRE 129
24 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richford in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindRichford$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed a barn in Richford. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRichford-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in Richford. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2025Flash FloodRichford-Rainfall of 4 to 5.5 inches in a short time caused flash flooding on highway 21 between Coloma and Wautoma as well as in the city of Wautoma. Highway 21 was closed between Coloma and Wautoma with multiple roads closed in Wautoma due to street flooding. Multiple vehicles were stalled with passengers rescued by boat. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRichford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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
Coloma4.6 miles6
Dakota4.8 miles10
Wautoma8.6 miles6
Hancock8.9 miles7
Bannerman11.3 miles14
Silver Lake11.3 miles8
Plainfield13.5 miles7
Mount Morris14.4 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 RichfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25205396The 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 1572288. 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.

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.