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Loyd, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Willow town. It lies in ZIP code area 53924. It lies near Smith Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lime Ridge quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Loyd within Richland County

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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Loyd between 1992 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 3 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 burning32
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
19 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCORNFIELD FIRE #2
26 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1992Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLAIL FAIL #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Loyd: 4 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
Jo Templin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rego QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snyder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loyd in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLoyd$20,000Damage occurred to the roof of a home, as well as to a shed at a homestead along County Road NN. Also, trees and power lines were blown down between Ithaca and Cazenovia.

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Neptune3.7 miles12
Bunker Hill5.1 miles12
Keyesville5.9 miles11
Corwin (historical)5.9 miles11
Ithaca6.0 miles12
Buck Creek6.3 miles12
Rockbridge6.7 miles12
Hub City6.9 miles12

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 LoydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714520The 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 1568775. 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.