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Dairyland, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Dairyland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54830. The Survey maps it on the Dairyland quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Dairyland within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Dairyland between 1993 and 2015, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
31 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDAIRYLIGHT
5 July 2014Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLUEBERRY
23 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1997Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1997Smoking3.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Dairyland: 13 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zinc, Copper. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near Rock CreekZinc, CopperOccurrence
EmeteryCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Dairyland CCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Rock CreekCopperOccurrence
Beaver Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chase Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chase Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kingsdale Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
St Croix River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dairyland in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1994Tornado (F1)Dairyland$50,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDairyland-Numerous trees were blown down. A twelve-inch diameter pine tree was blown down across State Road 35.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDairyland-Many trees were blown down at county roads Y and L near Gordon and Wascott.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindDairyland-Many large trees, up to three feet in diameter, were broken off or uprooted in a rural area of southwest Douglas County. Power lines were also knocked down, causing electrical outages in the surrounding area. There was little or no structural damage.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Moose Junction4.9 miles9
Cozy Corner5.6 miles8
Chaffey12.6 miles12
Gordon19.0 miles9
Wascott19.2 miles9
Patzau19.3 miles12
Solon Springs20.0 miles10
Foxboro20.7 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 DairylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5209590The 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 1563661. 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.