Cainville, Wisconsin

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.

• 1893 USGS Brodhead quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Brodhead quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Orfordville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Magnolia Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Cainville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,851 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Magnolia
• Evansville
• Fellows (historical)
• Footville
• Orfordville
• Hanover

Every fire recorded in Rock County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cainville: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Every working recorded in Rock County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562505. 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.