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Shamrock, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Manchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 54615. It lies near Irish Valley. The Survey maps it on the Shamrock quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Shamrock within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Shamrock between 1992 and 2018, burning about 267 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Other causes7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 August 2015Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHUNDERCLOUD
2 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLINE FIRE
17 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesALPHA FIRE
17 July 2001Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shamrock in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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 2007Thunderstorm WindShamrock$25,000Trees were blown along Thunder Cloud Road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindShamrock$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of State Highway 27 and County Road O in Shamrock.
June 2014FloodShamrock$5,000Runoff from heavy rain caused water to go over Thundercloud Road west of Millston. The road remained closed after the flood waters receded due to damage caused by the water.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindShamrock$3,000Trees and branches were blown down west of Shamrock.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindShamrock$500A large tree was blown down.
August 2014HailShamrock-no account filed
March 2007HailShamrock-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindShamrock-no account filed
June 2004HailShamrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Fall Hall Glen2.4 miles11
Irving5.2 miles11
Sheppard6.1 miles13
Charter Oak Mills (historical)7.5 miles13
Brockway7.9 miles13
Millston8.4 miles15
Black River Falls8.7 miles13
Vaudreuil9.1 miles13

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 ShamrockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7487634The 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 1573955. 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.