Royalton, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Royalton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54961. It stands on Mouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northport quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Weyauwega quadrangle1:48000
- 1969 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
77 words on this townshipHistory of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 names this settlement in its chapter on Royalton Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The Village of Royalton has four general stores, one hardw^are store, one saloon, two livery barns, one hotel, one grist mill, one saw mill, one blacksmith shop, one wheelright shop, one insurance agent, two doctors, and one minister. It has an excellent water power.
Passage source: History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Royalton Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
119 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Royalton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY O FIRE |
| 21 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Royalton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thiel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Royalton in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Hail | Royalton | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Royalton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ostrander | 1.9 miles | 7 | |
| Little Wolf (historical) | 2.1 miles | 7 | |
| Northport | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| Carmel | 4.1 miles | 7 | |
| Shaw Landing | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Manawa | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Baldwins Mill | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Nowell (historical) | 6.3 miles | 7 |
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 Royalton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7375122 | The 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 1572697. 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.




