Koshkonong Mounds, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Koshkonong town. It lies in ZIP code area 53538. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Koshkonong Mounds within Jefferson County

On record in Koshkonong Mounds

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.

Albert and Mary Shekey Houselisted 2015 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1891 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1906 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Fort Atkinson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1961 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Koshkonong Mounds between 2000 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 April 2000	Smoking	3.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1903267
18 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	72
27 February 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vinnie Ha Ha	0.6 miles	18
Blackhawk Island	2.0 miles	18
Koshkonong	2.0 miles	19
Lake Koshkonong	2.5 miles	18
North Shore	2.6 miles	18
Carcajou	2.9 miles	18
Koshkonong Manor	3.2 miles	18
Busseyville	4.4 miles	18

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 Koshkonong Mounds	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6433153	The 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 1567630. 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.