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Hickory Grove, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hickory Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 53805. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock quadrangle. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Hickory Grove within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBROKEN TINE
25 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRAILROAD WEST FIRE
7 June 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRAILROAD EAST FIRE
30 June 2000Debris and open burning2.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Grove: 3 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
Blue River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Salzgeber QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Staskal and Son-Sand and GravelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Updike QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Homer1.7 miles10
Castle Rock5.4 miles10
Blue River5.9 miles10
Boscobel6.0 miles10
Lancaster Junction8.9 miles15
Fennimore9.0 miles15
Preston9.5 miles15
Muscoda9.9 miles10

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 Hickory GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714459The 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 1577639. 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.