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Keyesville, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ithaca town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It stands on Keyesville Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Bear Valley quadrangle. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.

Keyesville within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Keyesville between 1993 and 2018, burning about 68 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Natural2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesONE HUNDRED
20 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROLLERBALL
11 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSILVER MAPLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Keyesville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Maple Nut Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jo Templin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Keyesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wittman PitStone, 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
Bear Valley2.5 miles11
Ithaca3.3 miles12
Neptune3.5 miles12
Aubrey4.3 miles12
Sextonville5.7 miles12
Loyd5.9 miles11
Twin Bluffs6.7 miles12
Gotham8.9 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 KeyesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714503The 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 1577676. 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.