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Waldwick, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Waldwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 53565. The Survey maps it on the Waldwick quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Waldwick within Iowa 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Waldwick between 1999 and 2020, burning about 192 acres 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018-21
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9006000
30 March 2018Debris and open burning125 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5172
30 March 1999Debris and open burning60 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4677
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesYELLOWSTONE GUN RANGE FIRE
7 November 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa 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 Waldwick: 2 past producers. 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
King QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wendtlandt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldwick in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindWaldwick$10,000A swath of numerous large trees snapped, some were rotted.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWaldwick$10,000A swath of scattered tree and crop damage via straight-line winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWaldwick$10,000Numerous 10 to 30 inch diameter trees snapped in the town of Waldwick.
March 2017HailWaldwick-no account filed
March 2005HailWaldwick-no account filed
October 1996HailWaldwick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Jonesdale5.2 miles12
Hollandale6.5 miles12
Mineral Point7.8 miles14
Adamsville (historical)8.8 miles12
Moscow9.8 miles12
Dodgeville10.5 miles14
Middlebury11.3 miles12
Ridgeway12.5 miles15

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 WaldwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7961656The 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 1576154. 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.