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Leeds, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Leeds town. It lies in ZIP code area 53911. The Survey maps it on the Morrisonville quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Leeds within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Leeds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLOVELAND BOBCAT
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKLEINERT ROAD
4 July 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2002Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2010Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKRONCKE CORN CRIB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Leeds: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leeds in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 1 funnel cloud, 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
September 2022HailLeeds-no account filed
July 2005Funnel CloudLeeds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
North Leeds1.5 miles12
Leeds Center2.6 miles12
Arlington3.5 miles12
Keyeser3.8 miles12
Lowville5.0 miles12
Poynette6.9 miles13
Rio10.5 miles9
Otsego10.5 miles9

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 LeedsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6515823The 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 1567935. 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.