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Jacksonville, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adrian town. It lies in ZIP code area 54660. It lies near Stevens Valley. The Survey maps it on the Tomah quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Jacksonville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 229 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Debris and open burning33
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Natural1

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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUCK FIRE
22 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesANGRY SNAPPING TURTLE
21 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLATIRON AVE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Jacksonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jacobs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Tomah3.4 miles13
Tunnel City3.8 miles14
North Tomah4.7 miles14
Spring Bank Park5.1 miles14
Scotts Junction (historical)6.0 miles12
Norwalk9.0 miles11
Oakdale9.3 miles13
Kirby9.6 miles14

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 JacksonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6117910The 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 1846224. 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.