Parfreyville, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54981. It stands on Radley Creek. The Survey maps it on the King quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Parfreyville within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Waupaca quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1969 USGS King quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Parfreyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 5 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	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Natural	14
Fireworks	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Other causes	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BURNING BEE
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PARFREYVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rural	1.2 miles	8
Little Hope	1.2 miles	8
King	1.8 miles	8
Chain O' Lakes	2.3 miles	8
Waupaca	3.9 miles	8
Cobb Town	6.2 miles	8
Sheridan	6.7 miles	8
Granite Quarry (historical)	7.9 miles	8

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 Parfreyville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7136950	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 1571033. 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.