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Unity, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Unity Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54488. The Survey maps it on the Spencer North quadrangle. 384 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,335 feet above sea level.

Unity within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Unity between 2019 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
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20042
5 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19027
15 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Unity: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them 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
Dill Creek Granite Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elm Road Granite Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hoffman Granite Boulder DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Raeder Creek Granite Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raeder Creek Granite Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Winding Creek Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unity in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Unity$330,000A tornado touched down southwest of Unity, moved through the village, and ended northeast of town in Marathon County (NWS Green Bay's warning area). Besides damage to trees and power lines, several homes and garages had extensive damage, especially to roofs.
September 2014FloodUnity-Locally heavy rain caused street flooding to occur in Unity which sent water over State Highway 13.
July 2011FloodUnity-Rising water along the Little Eau Pleine River threatened a home in Unity.
June 2012HailUnity-no account filed
July 1996HailUnity-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Colby4.0 miles11
Riplinger4.9 miles11
Abbotsford6.5 miles11
Atwood9.1 miles11
Curtiss9.5 miles11
Dorchester10.5 miles6
Veefkind11.4 miles11
Spokeville11.5 miles11

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 UnityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306784The 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 1575925. 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.