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Indian Heights, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Albion town. It lies in ZIP code area 53534. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Indian Heights within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

17,674 words on this township

History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Albion Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Albion Town - 17,674 words.

Fires near this place

26 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Indian Heights between 2013 and 2020, burning about 14 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201056
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1808574
11 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19738
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806391
2 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20561
15 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19509
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20504
17 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1805345

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Indian Heights: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kidder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Knudsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Highwood0.6 miles18
Hickory Hills0.8 miles18
Edgerton Beach Park1.1 miles18
Albion3.3 miles18
Hillside5.8 miles18
Hanerville (historical)7.8 miles19
Rockdale8.3 miles18
Utica9.6 miles18

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 Indian HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6020437The 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 1842475. 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.