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Lindsey, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rock town. It lies in ZIP code area 54449. It sits by Lindsey Bluffs. The Survey maps it on the Lindsey quadrangle. It stands 1,158 feet above sea level.

Lindsey within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lindsey between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Other causes2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2019Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOLARIS
25 April 1997Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 1997Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2009Debris and open burning6.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRUSH CREEK
24 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2003241

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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 Lindsey: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Plantz Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Todd Road Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindsey in 2 storm reports in 2006: 2 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
May 2006HailLindsey-no account filed
May 2006HailLindsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Nasonville3.7 miles11
Bakerville6.6 miles11
Marshfield10.3 miles11
Bethel11.2 miles11
Veedum12.1 miles13
Hewitt12.3 miles11
Pittsville12.3 miles13
Arpin14.1 miles11

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 LindseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6552857The 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 1568143. 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.