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Elvers, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Vermont town. It lies in ZIP code area 53515. It stands on Ryan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Mounds quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Elvers within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Elvers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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
Debris and open burning57
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
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
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEE BURNT
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-2833
22 July 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19250
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRYAN RD
8 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2009Debris and open burning1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesELLESON WOODS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Elvers: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, 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
Brighams MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Reilly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Swenson QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working 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
Little Norway3.0 miles16
Blue Mounds4.0 miles16
Mount Horeb5.3 miles16
Black Earth5.4 miles15
Mazomanie7.4 miles16
Pine Bluff7.6 miles16
Klevenville7.6 miles16
Cross Plains8.1 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 ElversAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5368018The 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 1577589. 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.