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Boydtown, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marietta town. It lies in ZIP code area 53826. It lies in Boydtown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Wauzeka East quadrangle.

Boydtown within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Boydtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 425 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning23
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWOODMAN CAR FIRE
11 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Boydtown: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Edward Kraemer and Sons, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Wauzeka QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boydtown in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 2 heavy rain. 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 2017Heavy RainBoydtown-In the Township of Marietta, 6.25 inches of rain fell.
June 2013Heavy RainBoydtown-The COOP observer northeast of Wauzeka reported 3.1 inches of rain bringing the total to over 4 inches in the past 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Wauzeka4.6 miles10
Easter Rock5.2 miles10
Steuben5.7 miles10
Barnum7.7 miles10
Plugtown8.3 miles10
Harmony Hill8.4 miles10
Mount Zion10.7 miles10
Petersburg11.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577523. 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.