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Kegonsa, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Pleasant Springs town. It lies in ZIP code area 53589. The Survey maps it on the Stoughton quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Kegonsa within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Kegonsa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 32 acres 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources321998
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources232
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources160
25 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources186
23 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
2 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kegonsa: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hawkinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kreuger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lunde QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rucks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kegonsa in 1 storm report in 2024: 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 2024HailKegonsa-Video of 1 inch diameter hail falling.

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Petty Acres2.4 miles19
Oak Knoll2.6 miles19
Door Creek3.6 miles26
Hoffman Corners4.1 miles26
Utica4.2 miles18
Stoughton4.3 miles19
Nora4.6 miles26
Bayview Heights4.7 miles19

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 KegonsaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6383459The 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 1577672. 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.