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Indian Heights, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lyndon town. It lies in ZIP code area 53944. It stands on Gilmore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wisconsin Dells North quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Indian Heights within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Indian Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning101
Equipment and vehicle use81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking13
Arson/incendiarism11
Fireworks11
Other causes8
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural3

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
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 13-2
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 13-1
7 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSQUIRREL
5 August 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOOM FIRE
4 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 12 CHURCHYARD
3 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau 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
Lyndon Station4.0 miles16
Lemonweir12.0 miles12
Mauston15.1 miles12
Lindina17.5 miles12
Wonewoc20.9 miles11
New Lisbon22.2 miles12
Union Center23.1 miles11
Elroy23.7 miles11

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 Q6020440The 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 2741526. 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.