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Klevenville, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Springdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 53572. The Survey maps it on the Cross Plains quadrangle. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Klevenville within Dane County

On record in Klevenville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Klevenville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 were 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources480
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-2833
22 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19321
22 July 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1228
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19154
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources251
3 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

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 Klevenville: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
General Silica Division PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Henderson Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jensen QuarryStoneUnknown
Mickelson QuarryStoneUnknown
Ringgenberg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Riley2.4 miles17
Pine Bluff2.6 miles16
Mount Horeb3.9 miles16
Mount Vernon5.4 miles14
West Middleton5.7 miles17
Cross Plains6.2 miles16
Little Norway6.5 miles16
Five Points (historical)7.2 miles17

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 KlevenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6420739The 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 1567547. 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.