BlockMeadow Valley, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kingston town. The Survey maps it on the Finley quadrangle. It stands 965 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Necedah quadrangle1:48000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Finley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Valley between 1995 and 2019, burning about 92 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | POWERLINE |
| 5 July 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Necedah National Wildlife Refuge | CAMPGROUND TWO |
| 5 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HIGHWAY 80 |
| 30 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HIGHWAY |
| 3 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Necedah National Wildlife Refuge | MV-WMA 19-1 |
| 24 May 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 May 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Meadow Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6803292 | The 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 1577719. 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.