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Wrightstown, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wrightstown Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54180. It stands on Plum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wrightstown quadrangle. 3,179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Wrightstown within Brown County

On record in Wrightstown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wrightstown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5

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
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
22 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources54
15 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20059
16 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources21
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020020
5 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
11 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources35
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBU18031

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Wrightstown: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Bodde Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Daanen and JanssenStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrightstown in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2013Tornado (EF0)Wrightstown$2,000,000The tornado that developed 2.7 miles east-northeast of Mackville in Outagamie County at 12:40 am CDT moved into Brown County, entering near Highway 41, 1.8 miles northwest of Wrightstown, at 12:48 am CDT. The tornado first hit the Apple Creek Campground, snapping 50 trees and knocking over two camping trailers. As the tornado moved across the southern part of the county, at least 70 homes sustained at least minor damage, many from fallen trees (DI 27, DOD 3 and 4; DI 28, DOD 3 and 4). A large, free-standing garage was heavily damaged when the tornadic winds blew in two garage doors, causing the roof to be ripped off (DI 1, DOD 5). The tornado entered Manitowoc County 4.1 miles northwest of Rosecrans at 1:01 am CDT. Average path width of the tornado in Brown County was 175 yards.
August 2013Tornado (EF1)Wrightstown$500,000The tornado that formed in Outagamie County near Mackville at 12:38 am CDT entered Brown County about two miles southwest of Wrightstown at 12:48 am CDT. The tornado snapped or uprooted dozens of trees as it moved east, just south of Greenleaf. A house lost an attached garage when winds blew in the garage door and caused a large portion of the garage roof to lift off (DI 2, DOD 4). The walls of a nearby outbuilding collapsed (DI 1, DOD 6). The tornado dissipated about 3 miles west of Morrison. The average path width of the tornado in Brown County was 125 yards.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWrightstown$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees, power lines, and heavily damaged a golf clubhouse in Wrightstown. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWrightstown$10,000Thunderstorm winds, gusting to 78 mph, overturned a semi-trailer near Wrightstown, on CR-U and US-41, and damaged dugouts at a baseball field.
July 2010FloodWrightstown$10,000Heavy rainfall caused Apple Creek to rise about 2.5 feet above flood stage at the Apple Creek Campground. Brown County officials had to evacuate 28 people from the campground where water was up to 5 feet deep.
August 2005Tornado (F1)Wrightstown$10,000no account filed
September 2021HailWrightstown-Lime size hail fell in Wrightstown. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021HailWrightstown-Penny size hail fell in Wrightstown. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021HailWrightstown-Tennis ball size hail fell in Wrightstown. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWrightstown-Thunderstorm winds downed a spruce tree and power lines in Wrightstown.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWrightstown-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires all across Wrightstown. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWrightstown-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple large trees in the middle of Wrightstown. The storms produced a gust to 67 mph, as measured by a spotter.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWrightstown-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Wrightstown, knocking out power.
July 2012HailWrightstown-Quarter size hail fell for 2 minutes in Wrightstown.
May 2011HailWrightstown-Quarter size hail fell in Wrightstown.
June 2008HailWrightstown-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWrightstown-no account filed
July 2004HailWrightstown-no account filed
May 2002HailWrightstown-no account filed
May 1998HailWrightstown-no account filed
March 1998HailWrightstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Sniderville2.3 miles8
Greenleaf3.6 miles8
Little Rapids4.2 miles8
Askeaton4.7 miles8
Holland5.3 miles9
Morrison9.4 miles9
West De Pere9.5 miles10
De Pere10.1 miles10

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 WrightstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2657798The 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 1577056. 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.