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Livingston, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Livingston Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53554. The Survey maps it on the Montfort quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Livingston within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Livingston between 2014 and 2020, burning about 55 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7042001
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources704201
11 April 2014Debris and open burning28 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDODGEVILLE CO-OP 6
18 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018045
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20217

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Livingston: 28 past producers, 19 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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
Jones and Snow MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Jones and Snow MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Bickford MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Ebenezer MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Ivey Construction Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Knight QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Silver Dollar MineLead, ZincPast Producer1903
Centerville MinesZincPast Producer1894
Clayton MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livingston in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLivingston$170,000More than 20 power poles were snapped causing power lines to go down along State Highway 80 between Livingston and Montfort. Farm buildings were damaged north of Livingston.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLivingston$30,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLivingston$20,000A roof was blown off a barn just east of Livingston.
July 2009HailLivingston$5,000no account filed
April 2006HailLivingston$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailLivingston$750no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A trained spotter reported a 61 mph wind gust 2 miles north of Livingston.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A 72 mph wind gust was measured by the fire department just south of Livingston.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A 78 mph wind gust occurred northwest of Livingston.
June 2014Funnel CloudLivingston-A funnel cloud was sighted in Livingston.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A wind gust to 70 mph was measured in Livingston.
March 1998HailLivingston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Arthur3.8 miles14
Montfort4.9 miles13
Annaton5.7 miles15
Union7.0 miles16
Preston8.0 miles15
Centerville8.1 miles10
Stitzer10.4 miles15
Lancaster Junction11.1 miles15

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 LivingstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3314530The 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 1568470. 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.