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Young America, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Barton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53090. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Bend quadrangle. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Young America within Washington County

On record in Young America

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Young America between 2018 and 2020, burning about 71 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
2 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802951
28 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources785
10 July 2018Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802296
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001951
23 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802084
13 May 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001417
10 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001382
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801480

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Young America: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Barton Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Johann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thoma PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
West Bend Sand & Stone Schelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Young America in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 hail, 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 2018Thunderstorm WindYoung America$1,000A 1.5-2.0 foot diameter tree down on Barton Ave. at River Dr.
August 2015HailYoung America-no account filed
August 2015HailYoung America-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Barton0.6 miles15
West Bend1.8 miles15
Orchard Grove4.0 miles15
Saint Michaels4.5 miles12
Nabob5.0 miles14
Kewaskum5.3 miles12
Myra5.4 miles15
Cheeseville5.7 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 Young AmericaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8057905The 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 1577114. 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.