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Mount Sterling, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mount Sterling Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54645. It lies near O'Neil Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.

Mount Sterling within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Sterling fell from 211 to 189 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010211
2020189-22 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Mount Sterling between 1992 and 2018, burning about 129 acres in total. None 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 burning28
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
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
16 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNO TILL FIRE
2 May 2009Debris and open burning4.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTURKEY RIDGE FIRE
2 May 1996Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount Sterling: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Stone. 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
Judy Smith QuarryStoneUnknown
Mount Sterling ProspectCopperOccurrence
Mount Sterling ProspectCopperUnknown
Edward Kraemer and Sons, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fairview QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Webber 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
Fairview3.7 miles10
Seneca3.8 miles10
Gays Mills4.4 miles10
Johnstown5.3 miles10
Bell Center5.6 miles10
Petersburg5.7 miles10
Towerville6.7 miles10
Reed7.2 miles18

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 Mount SterlingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2612394The 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 1569847. 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.