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Crestview, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Caledonia Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53402. The Survey maps it on the Racine North quadrangle.

Crestview within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

6,561 words on this township

Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871; The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Caledonia Village covers the township.

Read the chapter on Caledonia Village - 6,561 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Crestview between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1
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
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001426
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001423
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801102
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181719
2 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803754
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000796
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000517
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800505

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine 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
Tabor1.3 miles16
Wind Point3.2 miles16
Ives3.2 miles16
North Bay3.9 miles16
Husher4.5 miles17
Caledonia6.1 miles17
Racine6.4 miles15
Franksville6.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1563530. 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.