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Caryville, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rock Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 54701. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elk Creek Lake quadrangle.

Caryville within Dunn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

11 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Caryville between 2014 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900026
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources167
25 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources214
8 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900017
2 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020008
9 April 2014Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK RIVER FALLS CO-OP 1
8 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900010
25 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources122

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Caryville: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Butler Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Caryville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rock Creek Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brunswick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Caryville Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Caryville Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Caryville Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Coon Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coon Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elton Talford Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dunn County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caryville in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 hail. 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
June 2021HailCaryville-no account filed
August 2018HailCaryville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunn 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
Rock Falls2.4 miles12
Falls City5.9 miles12
Meridean6.2 miles12
Elk Mound8.4 miles13
Old Tyrone (historical)9.3 miles12
Red Cedar11.9 miles12
Dunnville12.4 miles12
Rusk13.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562755. 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.