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Deansville, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Medina town. It lies in ZIP code area 53559. The Survey maps it on the Marshall quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Deansville within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Deansville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19092
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19095
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources965
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources228245
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources759
6 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20042
29 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19063
21 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20033

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deansville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
John Hensen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deansville in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDeansville$8,000Several large trees and branches down at the Wind Christmas Tree Farm. Some structural damage to the pole barns and other outbuildings, such as doors blown off.

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Drovers Woods1.7 miles26
Marshall2.1 miles24
City View Heights4.1 miles26
Pierceville4.1 miles26
York Center4.3 miles24
Burgess Corners4.4 miles26
Buss's Corners (historical)5.6 miles26
Sun Prairie5.8 miles26

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 DeansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5246793The 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 1563788. 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.