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West Bloomfield, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bloomfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54983. The Survey maps it on the Poy Sippi quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

West Bloomfield within Waushara County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of West Bloomfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 were 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 burning48
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
30 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOO BOO
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEAST
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesYOGI
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWEST
5 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Bloomfield in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 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
June 2016HailWest Bloomfield-Hail, up to quarter size, covered the ground and caused some damage to corn crops in West Bloomfield.
May 2002HailWest Bloomfield-no account filed
March 1998HailWest Bloomfield-no account filed
July 1997HailWest Bloomfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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
Brushville3.7 miles8
Tustin5.8 miles8
Poy Sippi5.9 miles8
Pine River7.3 miles8
Saxeville8.2 miles8
Fountain Valley9.0 miles8
Borth9.8 miles8
Auroraville11.7 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 West BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7984484The 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 1576454. 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.

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.