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Stonebank, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Merton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53066. The Survey maps it on the Stonebank quadrangle.

Stonebank within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

In the county-history sources

26,045 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Merton Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Merton Town - 26,045 words.

Fires near this place

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Stonebank between 2018 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
21 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802995
8 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900183
2 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources124
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800130
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800131
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800125
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800126

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stonebank: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
North Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vogt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonebank in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindStonebank$5,000Large pine trees were reported to be blown down by powerful thunderstorm winds by the public in Stone Bank.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindStonebank-County sheriff deputies reported trees were blown down by the strong thunderstorm gusts.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStonebank-Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled large trees.
May 2012HailStonebank-no account filed
June 2001HailStonebank-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Okauchee Lake2.1 miles23
North Lake2.3 miles22
Chenequa2.3 miles23
Okauchee2.4 miles23
Nashotah3.1 miles23
Mapleton3.6 miles22
Oconomowoc Lake3.7 miles23
Hartland4.5 miles22

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 StonebankAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7618868The 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 1574934. 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.