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Valmy, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sevastopol town. It lies in ZIP code area 54235. The Survey maps it on the Institute quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Valmy within Door County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

3,874 words on this township

History of Door County, Wisconsin, Together with Biographies of Nearly Seven Hundred Families, and Mention of 4,000 Persons .., published 1881; History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sevastopol Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sevastopol Town - 3,874 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Valmy between 2018 and 2020, 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources671
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1932
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources525
26 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources436
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources426

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Valmy: 1 producer, 1 past 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
Kiehnau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Walker Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valmy in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 1999: 2 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
September 1996Thunderstorm WindValmy$10,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindValmy-no account filed
July 1999HailValmy-no account filed
June 1998HailValmy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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
Institute1.6 miles7
Whitefish Bay2.4 miles7
Carlsville4.9 miles7
Jacksonport6.4 miles7
Stevens Hill7.3 miles8
Sturgeon Bay7.9 miles7
Idlewild8.8 miles7
Egg Harbor9.7 miles8

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 ValmyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912513The 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 1576026. 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.