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School Hill, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Meeme town. It lies in ZIP code area 53042. The Survey maps it on the School Hill quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

School Hill within Manitowoc County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of School Hill between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources80
1 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2364
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5122
23 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources310
18 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9654
15 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5111
22 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources725

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of School Hill: 3 producers. 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
Lutski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lutzki PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schwartz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names School Hill in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 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
May 2024HailSchool Hill-Penny size hail fell near School Hill.
July 2017HailSchool Hill-Half dollar size hail fell at School Hill.

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Spring Valley3.0 miles9
Louis Corners3.2 miles9
Meeme3.9 miles9
Osman4.1 miles9
Saint Nazianz4.3 miles10
Millhome5.2 miles9
Rockville5.9 miles9
Steinthal6.2 miles10

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 School HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7432268The 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 1573801. 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.