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Shortville, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washburn town. It lies in ZIP code area 54456. It stands on Hay Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hatfield NE quadrangle.

Shortville within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Shortville between 1992 and 2015, burning about 143 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
20 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPINEVIEW ROAD
8 May 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2006Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 1998Debris and open burning2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2015Debris and open burning3.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTODD
3 April 2006Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shortville: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
High Hill Quartz & Rhyolite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rock Creek Road Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shortville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindShortville$1,000Some shingles were blown off a building south of Granton.
April 2009HailShortville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Kurth (historical)5.6 miles11
Neillsville6.2 miles11
Granton7.1 miles11
Sidney7.6 miles11
Nevins8.0 miles12
Lynn8.3 miles11
Sherwood8.7 miles12
Columbia10.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1574075. 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.