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Blanchardville, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Blanchardville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53516. The Survey maps it on the Blanchardville quadrangle. 807 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Blanchardville within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Blanchardville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 May 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020-14
8 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018-17
7 April 2018Debris and open burning35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018-16
5 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019-18
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019005
25 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018-22
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020-12
19 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette 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 Blanchardville: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Larson QuarryStoneUnknown
P.W. Ryan Sons, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Presbroten QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vinger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanchardville in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash 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
July 1996Flash FloodBlanchardville$480,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Yellowstone (historical)5.8 miles13
Argyle7.5 miles13
Lamont9.8 miles14
Fayette10.0 miles13
Woodford11.2 miles13
Wiota12.9 miles14
Red Rock15.2 miles12
Darlington16.1 miles12

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 BlanchardvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2190838The 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 1561917. 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.