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Dexterville, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dexter town. It lies in ZIP code area 54495. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Dexter quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Dexterville within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Dexterville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCEMETERY
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIRTHDAY BEAR FIRE
26 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPINE FIRE
25 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1992Natural9.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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 Dexterville: 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
Grange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dexterville in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 1999: 3 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDexterville$1,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDexterville-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindDexterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Veedum4.0 miles13
Pittsville4.4 miles13
Babcock5.2 miles13
Cranmoor5.9 miles13
Walker7.0 miles8
Ceex Haci10.0 miles8
Vesper10.7 miles8
Bethel11.4 miles11

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 DextervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5268479The 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 1563957. 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.