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Lime Ridge, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lime Ridge Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53942. The Survey maps it on the Lime Ridge quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.

Lime Ridge within Sauk County

Population over time

2 figures

Lime Ridge fell from 162 to 158 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010162
2020158-4 (-2%)

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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Lime Ridge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
20 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROUND-ABOUT BALE
8 July 2012Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKER
23 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEECHY PASTURE
8 May 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCORNFIELD FIRE #2
23 May 2012Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSCHMUCKER BARN
2 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOT PEPER
2 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lime Ridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Chester Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rego QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Hill Point3.7 miles11
Sandusky5.0 miles11
Ironton5.5 miles11
Loganville6.6 miles11
La Valle8.0 miles11
Loreta8.8 miles11
Reedsburg9.2 miles11
Baders Villa Estates9.4 miles16

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 Lime RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2186497The 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 1568058. 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.