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Irving, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Irving town. It lies in ZIP code area 54615. It stands on Trout Run. The Survey maps it on the Melrose quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Irving within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Irving between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAWK ISLAND FIRE
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irving in 2 storm reports in 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIrving$7,000Farms in the rural Town of Irving lost some livestock sheds and had outbuildings damaged. Several fields of corn were also flattened but it was thought that most of the corn would recover with little crop loss.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIrving$2,000Numerous trees were blown down near Irving.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Fall Hall Glen3.3 miles11
Shamrock5.2 miles11
Charter Oak Mills (historical)5.6 miles13
Melrose6.6 miles11
Brockway7.3 miles13
Disco7.6 miles13
Black River Falls7.7 miles13
Sheppard8.0 miles13

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 IrvingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714478The 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 1845465. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.