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Montgomeryville, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54655. It lies near Griffin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mount Zion quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Montgomeryville within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Montgomeryville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning31
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 61 FIRE
3 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRANK ROAD FIRE
14 June 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2014Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSOLDIERS GROVE
9 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLEMLEY ROAD
8 April 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHESTETUNE MESH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Montgomeryville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Moran QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Rolling Ground1.9 miles10
North Clayton2.3 miles10
Soldiers Grove3.2 miles10
Yankeetown3.5 miles10
Pine Knob6.1 miles10
Gays Mills6.2 miles10
Johnstown6.3 miles10
Bell Center6.4 miles10

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 MontgomeryvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6905851The 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 1577732. 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.