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Mount Vernon, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Springdale town. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Mount Vernon within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 2004 and 2019, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning6

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
22 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19321
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1226
16 April 2004Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burning17 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-0792
18 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-0976
14 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-0919

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Mount Vernon: 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
Henderson Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Primrose (historical)3.2 miles14
Klevenville5.4 miles16
Riley5.6 miles17
Montrose (historical)6.1 miles15
Mount Horeb6.1 miles16
Forward (historical)6.3 miles12
Paoli7.1 miles15
Verona7.2 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 Mount VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6924346The 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 1569853. 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.