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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.

Royalton within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

In the county-history sources

77 words on this township

History 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 1994

Regional 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 burning48
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
18 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY O FIRE
21 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thiel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006HailRoyalton-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRoyalton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Ostrander1.9 miles7
Little Wolf (historical)2.1 miles7
Northport3.7 miles7
Carmel4.1 miles7
Shaw Landing4.3 miles8
Manawa4.7 miles7
Baldwins Mill5.5 miles7
Nowell (historical)6.3 miles7

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 RoyaltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7375122The 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.