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Pine Knob, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Utica town. It lies in ZIP code area 54655. It lies near Swigum Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Readstown quadrangle. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Pine Knob within Crawford County

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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Pine Knob between 1992 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesB AND C FIRE
8 May 2020Arson/incendiarism35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020011
2 May 2009Debris and open burning4.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTURKEY RIDGE FIRE
9 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHESTETUNE MESH FIRE
8 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2006Missing 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pine Knob: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Cain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fairview QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Roaring Forty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Johnstown2.6 miles10
Yankeetown2.6 miles10
Towerville2.8 miles10
Soldiers Grove3.4 miles10
Gays Mills5.8 miles10
Fairview6.1 miles10
Montgomeryville6.1 miles10
Rising Sun6.5 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 Pine KnobAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195235The 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 1846426. 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.