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Little Norway, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Blue Mounds town. It lies in ZIP code area 53517. It stands on Bohn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Mounds quadrangle.

Little Norway within Dane County

On record in Little Norway

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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Little Norway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEE BURNT
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-2833
22 July 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19250
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRYAN RD
8 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOX FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Little Norway: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Lead, Zinc. 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
Brighams MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Barnveld QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jensen QuarryStoneUnknown
Mickelson QuarryStoneUnknown
Reilly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ringgenberg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swenson QuarryStoneUnknown

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
Blue Mounds2.4 miles16
Elvers3.0 miles16
Mount Horeb3.0 miles16
Klevenville6.5 miles16
Pine Bluff7.5 miles16
Daleyville7.8 miles12
Black Earth7.9 miles15
Riley8.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1568337. 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.