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Farmers Valley, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Angelo town. It lies in ZIP code area 54656. The Survey maps it on the City Rock quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Farmers Valley within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

658 words on this township

History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, Past and Present : Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County [microform], published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Angelo Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Angelo Town - 658 words.

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Farmers Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
12 September 2013Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesZIGGY FIRE
17 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMM33
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFERRIES FIRE
12 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAZELWOOD FIRE
10 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDIAN 1
10 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDIAN 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Farmers Valley: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Barons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schmitz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sullivan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Leon4.6 miles14
Sparta4.6 miles14
Angelo5.2 miles14
Scotts Junction (historical)6.1 miles12
Melvina6.6 miles13
Saint Marys7.7 miles11
Norwalk8.2 miles11
Spring Bank Park10.0 miles14

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 Farmers ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5435812The 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 1846208. 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.