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Shennington, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Byron town. It lies in ZIP code area 54618. It stands on Dandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shennington quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Shennington within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Shennington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3
Natural1

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
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesALL CREATURES FIRE
25 September 1999Smoking4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2003Debris and open burning3.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesASPEN FIRE
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRESNO FIRE
28 July 2012Arson/incendiarism11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMILL BLUFF FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shennington in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindShennington$500Law enforcement reported trees down across Funnel Road near Frontier Avenue.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindShennington$500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindShennington-Emergency management reported numerous trees down along County Line near Grosbeak and Funnel Rd 4 miles south of Shennington.
June 2006HailShennington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Wyeville3.6 miles11
Valley Junction5.4 miles11
Oakdale5.7 miles13
Norway Ridge6.9 miles10
Clifton10.3 miles13
Tomah10.4 miles13
North Tomah10.5 miles14
Warrens12.1 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 ShenningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7494308The 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 1574009. 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.