Shawtown, Wisconsin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Levi Merrill Houselisted 1985 · 0.3 miles away
• Oatman Filling Stationlisted 2001 · 0.3 miles away
• Kaiser Lumber Company Officelisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1934 USGS Elk Mound quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1936 USGS Elk Mound quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Eau Claire West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, Past and Present; Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Shawtown between 2013 and 2020, burning about 57 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Putnam Heights
• Eau Claire
• Union
• Mount Hope Corners
• Altoona

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Shawtown: 6 producers, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Every working recorded in Eau Claire County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawtown in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Eau Claire County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1573983. 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.