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Stevenstown, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Farmington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54636. It lies near Lewis Valley. The Survey maps it on the Stevenstown quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Stevenstown within La Crosse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stevenstown between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
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
23 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-0431
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19-0363
21 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200285

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stevenstown: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Kramer Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mindoro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North Thompson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peacock Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spring Coulee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vee Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevenstown in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2017Flash FloodStevenstown$2,600,000Heavy rains, with totals of 6 to 8 inches, produced flash flooding across La Crosse County. The Shelby Fire Department had to evacuate people along County Road M in the township of Greenfield. Some of these evacuations had to be made by boat. Other rescues had to be made along Kammell Coulee Road southeast of St. Joseph. County Road U was closed between Bangor and Rockland due to flooding along Fish Creek. Flood waters along Mormon Creek washed out the approaches to both sides of a bridge on Breidel Coulee Road south of Barre Mills. Some streets in Onalaska were washed out or completely underwater. Numerous streets in the city of La Crosse were underwater causing a giant sinkhole to form near Myrick Park. Every state and county highway, with the exception of Interstate 90 and U.S. Highway 53, sustained some damage. At least 60 township roads across the county were closed or impacted by flood waters. In Bangor, flood waters from Dutch Creek washed away the pedestrian walking bridge in Veterans Memorial Park. Boats on Lake Neshonoc broke loose from their moorings and became lodged against the dam. All the trails in the Hixton Forest suffered erosion damage that caused holes and blowouts to form. The damage to the trails caused a mountain bike race course to be limited to trails that stayed on top of the bluffs. A bike trail along Halfway Creek near Holmen was washed out in several places with other damage caused by logjams and debris in the water.
July 2017FloodStevenstown$2,300,000After the initial round of flash flooding, the flood waters continued to cause problems into Friday, July 21st. Numerous roads across the county remained closed until the flood waters receded.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStevenstown$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the northern part of La Crosse County.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindStevenstown$3,000Several trees were blown down in Stevenstown.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStevenstown$2,000Trees were blown down north of Stevenstown.
September 2010FloodStevenstown$1,000The shoulder of County Road TT was washed out.
August 2020HailStevenstown-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Stevenstown.
June 2021HailStevenstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Crosse 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
Mindoro3.8 miles13
Council Bay6.1 miles11
Burr Oak6.4 miles13
Holmen6.8 miles13
New Amsterdam8.5 miles13
Midway8.7 miles13
Brice Prairie9.6 miles13
West Salem10.6 miles17

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 StevenstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7615544The 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 1574888. 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.