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Sinsinawa, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hazel Green town. It lies in ZIP code area 53811. It stands on Sinsinawa Mound. The Survey maps it on the Kieler quadrangle.

Sinsinawa within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sinsinawa between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
31 May 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191476
16 March 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources31938
29 October 1992Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeISLAND228

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sinsinawa: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, 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
Jones PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay Level MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Big Tom MineZincPast Producer
Bob Richards QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
E. G. Weinen & Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wubben PropertyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sinsinawa in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindSinsinawa$25,000Power lines were down across much of the southern end of the county.
July 2011LightningSinsinawa$5,000Lightning struck a house causing a small fire.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSinsinawa$2,500no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSinsinawa$400Trees were blown down in a rural area.
June 2014Heavy RainSinsinawa-Near Sinsinawa, 3.78 inches of rain fell.
April 2011HailSinsinawa-Quarter size hail fell in Sinsinawa.
July 2011Heavy RainSinsinawa-The COOP observer at the Sinsinawa Mound Complex measured a total of 10.11 inches of rain ending at 6:00 a.m.
January 2008HailSinsinawa-A Postal Service employee reported driving through a lot of hail, some of which was up to the size of pennies.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Prairie Corners0.9 miles17
Fair Play1.4 miles17
Louisburg3.9 miles17
Sandy Hook4.0 miles17
Jamestown4.5 miles17
Kieler5.2 miles17
Rutledge5.4 miles19
Hazel Green5.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1574195. 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.