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Romance, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Harmony town. It lies in ZIP code area 54632. It stands on Cox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Romance within Vernon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

3,779 words on this township

History of Vernon County, Wisconsin, Together with Sketches of Its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens; History of Wisconsin.., published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harmony Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harmony Town - 3,779 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Romance between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources332018
23 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources302018
28 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources262019
22 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1112020
10 December 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1072020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon 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 Romance: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Victory QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Vernon County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romance in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindRomance$13,000no account filed
April 2026HailRomance-A trained spotter reported quarter sized 3 miles north of Romance.

Every storm recorded in Vernon 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
Genoa4.5 miles11
Newton5.1 miles11
Red Mound5.5 miles18
Purdy5.7 miles11
Victory5.8 miles18
Chaseburg7.7 miles11
Retreat8.1 miles18
Bud8.3 miles14

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 RomanceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7362374The 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 1577795. 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.