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Campia, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Rice Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54868. It stands on Brill River. The Survey maps it on the Rice Lake North quadrangle. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Campia within Barron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

17,358 words on this township

History of Barron County Wisconsin, published 1922 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rice Lake Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rice Lake Town - 17,358 words.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Campia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 99 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2013Debris and open burning2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources321
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources287
31 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources298
21 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Campia: 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 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
Barron County Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C. & R. Quillen Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Campia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
CrotteauSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Drew PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Evelyn Sorenson Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
H. P. Miller Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Henry Janecky Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kahl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Red Cedar River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Barron 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
Dobie1.4 miles8
Rice Lake4.4 miles8
Brill4.5 miles8
Mikana5.1 miles8
Tuscobia5.3 miles8
Horseman6.4 miles7
Canton7.6 miles7
Haugen7.6 miles8

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 CampiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714421The 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 1562695. 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.