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Cazenovia, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cazenovia Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53924. It stands on McGlynn Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Valle quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Cazenovia within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Cazenovia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 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 burning51
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2012Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKER
3 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMORS 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 Cazenovia: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 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
Bunker Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chester Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dooley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rego QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cazenovia in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2008Flash FloodCazenovia$1,100,000Water was reported over several roads, including County Road I and Highway 58.
September 2018Flash FloodCazenovia$336,000Runoff from heavy rains caused numerous streams across Richland County to go out of their banks. The flooding caused several roads to be closed including U.S. Highway 14, State Highways 56, 58, 80 and 131 along with numerous county and township roads.
August 2006HailCazenovia$20,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCazenovia$15,000Emergency management reported three trees blown down onto County Highway V in Cazenovia. There was also a report of a power line blown down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCazenovia$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCazenovia$1,000There was a lot of debris blowing through the air. Half inch diameter hail also fell.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCazenovia$800no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCazenovia$500no account filed
February 2024HailCazenovia-A volunteer observer reported nickel sized hail near Cazenovia.
May 2014HailCazenovia-Half dollar sized hail fell near Cazenovia.
May 2014HailCazenovia-Quarter sized hail fell for 2 minutes northwest of Cazenovia.
May 2014HailCazenovia-no account filed
August 2006HailCazenovia-no account filed
May 2000HailCazenovia-no account filed
June 1998HailCazenovia-no account filed
September 1994HailCazenovia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Germantown1.4 miles11
Bunker Hill3.7 miles12
Corwin (historical)4.7 miles11
Loyd7.3 miles11
Hub City9.2 miles12
Rockbridge10.3 miles12
Henrietta (historical)10.6 miles11
Neptune11.0 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 CazenoviaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2123667The 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 1562828. 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.