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Mayfield, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Polk town. It lies in ZIP code area 53037. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Mayfield within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

24 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield between 2014 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
25 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018127
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801111
17 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019083
13 May 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001417
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801480
7 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHERESA
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000045
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Mayfield: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Jackson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rugby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2022LightningMayfield$700,000A residential home was struck by lightning but the fire was contained to some degree. However, the home reignited a night later resulting in the total loss of the home.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMayfield$1,000A horse trailer was blown over.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMayfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Cedar Creek1.6 miles15
Jackson1.6 miles15
Rugby Junction2.8 miles15
Ackerville3.5 miles15
Diefenbach Corners3.8 miles15
Keowns4.2 miles15
Slinger4.8 miles15
Richfield5.0 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 MayfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6797161The 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 1569145. 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.