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Jenkinsville, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Benton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53807. It stands on Pats Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Jenkinsville within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Jenkinsville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202013
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064
18 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202011
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201808

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 110 workings within 5 miles of Jenkinsville: 57 unknowns, 51 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Etna MineLead, IronPast Producer
Farrey MineIron, ZincPast Producer1940
Raisbeck MineZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadUnknownBarite
Hoeper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mauthe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ewing and Cook MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1941, 1942
Hird No.1 MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1913, 1915
Iowa MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1919
New Calvert MineZinc, LeadProspect1917
Century MineLead, ZincPast Producer1900

Every working recorded in Lafayette 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
Meekers Grove0.7 miles13
Elk Grove2.8 miles13
Benton4.5 miles14
Lead Mine4.6 miles12
Etna5.3 miles12
Ipswich (historical)5.5 miles13
Strawbridge7.0 miles14
New Diggings7.1 miles12

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 JenkinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6177634The 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 1577662. 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.