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Kingsley Corners, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Springfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 53597. The Survey maps it on the Waunakee quadrangle. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Kingsley Corners within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Kingsley Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources246
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources342
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources304
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources154
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources491
27 April 2000Arson/incendiarism82 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources150
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources138

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kingsley Corners: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Endres QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Frank H Raemisch and Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zeigler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schumacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Westport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yahara Materials Company Kipley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ziegler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Waunakee2.4 miles24
Ashton Corners2.9 miles15
Ashton3.5 miles15
Springfield Corners3.8 miles15
Martinsville5.0 miles15
Dane5.1 miles22
Pheasant Branch5.1 miles25
Catfish (historical)5.3 miles24

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 Kingsley CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714506The 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 1842488. 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.