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Jimtown, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Akan town. It lies in ZIP code area 54655. The Survey maps it on the Mount Zion quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Jimtown within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Jimtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTNING FIRE
8 June 1999Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGOLDEN LANE
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINTER LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jimtown: 2 producers. 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
Akan Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bosstown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Bosstown3.0 miles10
Five Points3.3 miles10
Tavera4.8 miles10
Sylvan4.8 miles10
Mill Creek (historical)5.3 miles10
Wild Rose5.5 miles10
Boaz6.2 miles10
Sabin6.5 miles10

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 JimtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714488The 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 1577664. 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.