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Ithaca, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ithaca town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It lies near Pumpkin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sextonville quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Ithaca within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Ithaca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 3 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesONE HUNDRED
19 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROLLERBALL
11 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJUNE FIRE
1 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ithaca: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Maple Nut Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Househoulder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keyesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ithaca in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 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 2007Thunderstorm WindIthaca$6,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindIthaca$1,000A 14 to 16 inch tree was snapped off about 7 feet above the ground.
May 2025HailIthaca-Emergency Management reported quarter sized hail in Ithaca.
April 2002HailIthaca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Aubrey1.9 miles12
Neptune2.4 miles12
Keyesville3.3 miles11
Sextonville4.3 miles12
Twin Bluffs4.9 miles12
Bear Valley5.1 miles11
Richland Center5.6 miles12
Loyd6.0 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 IthacaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714480The 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 1578597. 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.

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.