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Czechville, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Milton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54629. The Survey maps it on the Cochrane quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Czechville within Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Czechville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 26 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
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 May 1992Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
27 February 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2012Debris and open burning25 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Czechville: 20 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Patzner QuarryStoneUnknown
Buffalo City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cochrane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eyedrop Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeview Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeview Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plain View Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Semling Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Twin Lakes Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Waumandee Creek Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo 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
Cochrane4.3 miles14
Fountain City4.8 miles16
Buffalo City5.7 miles14
Anchorage (historical)5.7 miles19
Waumandee8.8 miles11
Cream8.9 miles19
Herold8.9 miles19
Bohri (historical)9.5 miles16

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 CzechvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5201905The 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 1577566. 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.