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Hyde, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ridgeway town. It lies in ZIP code area 53582. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barneveld quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Hyde within Iowa County

On record in Hyde

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

10,004 words on this township

History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...biographical Sketches.., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ridgeway Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ridgeway Town - 10,004 words.

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Hyde between 1992 and 2019, burning about 211 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAR LOOK FIRE
7 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesERDMAN BALER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hyde: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone. 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
Demby Weist MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
W Thomas QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Iowa 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
Ridgeway4.9 miles15
Pleasant Ridge5.0 miles11
Coon Rock5.4 miles15
Barneveld6.1 miles15
Helena7.1 miles11
Arena7.3 miles15
Wyoming7.8 miles11
Middlebury10.7 miles12

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 HydeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714471The 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 1577653. 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.