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Walhain, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Luxemburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 54217. The Survey maps it on the New Franken quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Walhain within Kewaunee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Walhain between 2018 and 2020, burning about 36 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
3 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0F19151
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18062
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1836311
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18057
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18029
2 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Walhain: 15 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Keuken QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Luxemburg Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
De Jardin MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
De Jardin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Arendt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Lemens Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hillside Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hillside Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kewaunee County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Legois PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walhain in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWalhain-Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of small trees and some branches at Highway 54 and County Highway H. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Luxemburg2.7 miles8
Tonet3.2 miles8
Neuern3.4 miles8
Thiry Daems5.1 miles8
Casco Junction5.6 miles8
Bay View6.1 miles9
Ellisville7.1 miles8
Pilsen7.2 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 WalhainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7961887The 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 1576157. 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.