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Pine Bluff, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cross Plains town. It lies in ZIP code area 53528. The Survey maps it on the Cross Plains quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Pine Bluff within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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 Pine Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19429
24 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources480
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-2833
22 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19321
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800046
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800044
27 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Pine Bluff: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Capitol SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
General Silica Division PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boehnen Inc. Hollefelder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Henderson Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Middleton-Watson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zander QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Bluff in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002HailPine Bluff$200,000no account filed
August 2002Flash FloodPine Bluff$100,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPine Bluff$100,000no account filed
June 2018Flash FloodPine Bluff$50,000Areas of severe street flooding with numerous vehicles stranded, including on the Beltline Highway between Park St. and John Nolen Drive and in the Town of Madison. Several feet of water was reported on some streets in these areas. Two apartment buildings and one commercial building in the Town of Madison were flooded. The apartment buildings were evacuated due to the electrical hazard. 42 units were affected with water damage to carpeting and drywall.
July 2021Tornado (EF1)Pine Bluff-This was 1 of 17 tornadoes to occur in Wisconsin on the night of July 28th into the early morning hours of July 29th. This was the 9th overall tornado for the event. A line of storms developed in northern Wisconsin and pushed south into southern Wisconsin in the overnight hours of the 28th into the 29th of July with mainly brief tornadoes and damaging winds occurring. ||This tornado began near the Town of Middleton along Old Sauk Rd and went through some subdivisions before ending south of Valley View Rd.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPine Bluff-no account filed
April 2014HailPine Bluff-no account filed

Every storm 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
Klevenville2.6 miles16
Riley3.1 miles17
Cross Plains3.7 miles16
West Middleton4.4 miles17
Mount Horeb5.7 miles16
Middleton Junction6.8 miles17
Black Earth7.1 miles15
Five Points (historical)7.2 miles17

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 Pine BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195063The 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 1571419. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.