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Cottonville, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Preston town. It lies in ZIP code area 53934. The Survey maps it on the Roche A Cri quadrangle. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Cottonville within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Cottonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,704 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 were 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use40
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking10
Other causes7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2020Natural6.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUSTY
30 September 1995Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonville in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCottonville$600no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Roche a Cri (historical)1.5 miles7
Big Flats3.7 miles7
Arkdale4.8 miles8
Friendship6.1 miles10
Fordham (historical)6.4 miles11
Adams7.1 miles10
Monroe Center8.0 miles8
Dellwood8.7 miles10

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 CottonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5175779The 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 1837579. 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.

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.