Dancy, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Knowlton town. The Survey maps it on the Dancy quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Dancy within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Stevens Point quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Dancy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Dancy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Debris and open burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HILL FIRE
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TIKI FIRE
8 August 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	STRAW BALE FIRE
5 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FAIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dancy: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Depot Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Wilcox Lane Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Knowlton	2.6 miles	8
Ashley	5.6 miles	7
Rocky Corners	5.9 miles	7
Moon	7.0 miles	7
Mosinee	7.3 miles	10
Peplin	8.4 miles	10
Kronenwetter	11.3 miles	10
Halder	11.3 miles	7

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 Dancy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5215632	The 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 1563694. 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.