Fountain Valley, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Poy Sippi town. It lies in ZIP code area 54923. The Survey maps it on the Auroraville quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Fountain Valley within Waushara 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
1961 USGS Auroraville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Poy Sippi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 563 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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 burning	69
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ASH LIGHTNING
5 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LABOR DAY WEEKEND FIRE
30 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	UMOS CAMP FIRE
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PAINT CAN
20 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	61 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MUD CREEK
31 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara 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
Auroraville	2.7 miles	8
Poy Sippi	3.2 miles	8
Borth	4.8 miles	8
Brushville	5.5 miles	8
Pine River	6.4 miles	8
Redgranite	6.8 miles	8
Tustin	7.0 miles	8
Lohrville	7.9 miles	8

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 Fountain Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8565027	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 1565181. 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.