BlockMoon Valley, Wisconsin
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Merrimac town. It lies in ZIP code area 53561. It stands on Manley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sauk City quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 22 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.
- 1895 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1908 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Baraboo SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Sauk City quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Moon Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 18 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WHITE PINE |
| 29 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Bluff Estates | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Merrimac | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Bluffview | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Prairie du Sac | 6.4 miles | 22 | |
| Crawford Crossing | 6.5 miles | 24 | |
| Sauk City | 7.3 miles | 22 | |
| Black Hawk Manor | 7.6 miles | 19 | |
| Baraboo | 7.9 miles | 24 |
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 Moon Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6907577 | 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 1569698. 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.