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Stephensville, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ellington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54944. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

Stephensville within Outagamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Stephensville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5000117
8 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources21
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
29 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9000107
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
2 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11
11 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources12
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources74

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Stephensville: 16 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hortonville Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J Marcks Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
John Wolf Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jurack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clyde Main Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clyde Main Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cummings Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dobrinska Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grand View Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hortonville Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stephensville in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2017LightningStephensville$100,000Lightning stuck a gas meter outside a home, causing it to ignite. The fire caused considerable heat and smoke damage to the home and displaced its two residents.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindStephensville$10,000Thunderstorm winds pushed a 28 foot by 40 foot shed off its foundation and damaged several apple trees north of Hortonville.
September 2021HailStephensville-Quarter size hail fell near Stephensville.
June 2019HailStephensville-Quarter size hail fell north of Stephensville.
June 2019HailStephensville-Tennis ball size hail fell on the south side of Stephensville. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2013HailStephensville-A thunderstorm produced lime size hail as it passed near Stephensville.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Hortonville3.9 miles7
Shiocton4.9 miles8
Greenville5.6 miles8
Hamples Corner6.0 miles10
Center Valley6.9 miles8
Binghamton6.9 miles8
Medina7.5 miles7
Twelve Corners8.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1574865. 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.