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Truman, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kendall town. It lies in ZIP code area 53530. The Survey maps it on the Calamine quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Truman within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

904 words on this township

History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages ... Its War Record, Biographical Sketches ... 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 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Kendall Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Kendall Town - 904 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Truman in 2019, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2319
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1619

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Truman: 11 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
De Rocher MineLead, ZincPast Producer1935
Als Trucking Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jackson MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Lange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
M.C. MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Oakland Level, Brady Mine, and McZincPast Producer
Otto Jean Kelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Palzkil QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reddy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reichers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truman in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
October 2019Thunderstorm WindTruman$5,000Some roof damage to a structure on Truman Rd.
April 2025HailTruman-Measured tennis ball sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Calamine3.9 miles12
Slateford5.0 miles14
Belmont5.7 miles13
Darlington6.5 miles12
Avon6.5 miles12
Leslie8.1 miles13
Meekers Grove9.0 miles13
Elk Grove9.2 miles13

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 TrumanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7847687The 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 1577859. 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.