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Ives, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Caledonia Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53402. The Survey maps it on the Racine North quadrangle.

Ives within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

6,561 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Caledonia Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Caledonia Village - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Ives between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203640
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001426
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001423
10 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806005
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202165
15 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801102
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181717
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181719

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ives: 1 unknown. None of them 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
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ives in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 hail. 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
May 2014HailIves-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
North Bay1.4 miles16
Wind Point2.3 miles16
Crestview3.2 miles16
Racine3.3 miles15
Tabor3.5 miles16
Elmwood Park5.4 miles15
Husher5.6 miles17
Mount Pleasant5.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577660. 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.