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Quincy, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Quincy town. It lies in ZIP code area 53934. The Survey maps it on the Dellwood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Quincy within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Quincy (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Fireworks3

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
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPANCAKE FIRE
5 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOAK
1 September 2000Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWIGWAM
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOUTHOUSE FIRE
22 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEACH
21 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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
White Creek6.4 miles10
Brookside7.5 miles10
Dellwood7.5 miles10
Easton8.4 miles10
Adams Center (historical)8.9 miles10
Adams9.2 miles10
Friendship9.8 miles10
Arkdale11.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1837599. 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.