French Island Village, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Campbell town. It lies near Red Oak Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Holmen quadrangle.

French Island Village within La Crosse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1930 USGS La Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS La Crescent quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Holmen quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of French Island Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge	PAMMEL CREEK FIRE
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900058
14 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2003958
5 July 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2003248
31 July 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1807990
4 June 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19-0479
29 June 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of French Island Village: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lacrosse County Highway Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bucklin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dresbach Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Horn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kedhara Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse 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
French Island	2.0 miles	14
Lakeview (historical)	2.0 miles	13
Sunset Point (historical)	2.3 miles	13
West La Crosse	2.6 miles	14
Onalaska	3.0 miles	17
North La Crosse	3.1 miles	18
Grand Crossing	3.9 miles	18
Midway	4.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2833184. 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.