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Cold Spring, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Cold Spring town. It lies in ZIP code area 53190. It stands on Galloway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Atkinson quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Cold Spring within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cold Spring between 2000 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
12 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources244
30 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH PEAT FIRE
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources144
6 April 2000Smoking3.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18023
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources72
22 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Cold Spring: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Poyers QuarryStoneUnknown
Schuth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fort QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Poyers PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Fort Atkinson4.2 miles18
Hebron4.9 miles31
Blackhawk Island6.3 miles18
Vinnie Ha Ha7.0 miles18
Koshkonong Mounds7.4 miles19
Lake Koshkonong7.8 miles18
North Shore7.9 miles18
Jefferson8.1 miles15

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 Cold SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5142344The 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 1563236. 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.