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North Clayton, 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 stands on North Clayton Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Grove quadrangle. It stands 1,197 feet above sea level.

North Clayton 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of North Clayton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 4 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTNING FIRE
24 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2014Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSOLDIERS GROVE
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018013
9 April 1996Missing 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Clayton: 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
Montgomeryville2.3 miles10
Soldiers Grove3.6 miles10
Rolling Ground3.9 miles10
Yankeetown4.7 miles10
Pine Knob6.9 miles10
Johnstown7.9 miles10
Gays Mills8.4 miles10
Mount Zion8.7 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 North ClaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7054835The 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 1570410. 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.