Schneyville, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Clarno town. It lies in ZIP code area 53566. It stands on Little Richard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Schneyville within Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1920 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1922 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

31,846 words on this township

History of Green County, Wisconsin, published 1877; History of Green County, Wisconsin, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clarno Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clarno Town - 31,846 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Schneyville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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 burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
5 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	68
3 April 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	64
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	61
14 December 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Schneyville: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Monte Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Green 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
Clarno	0.5 miles	14
Twin Grove	5.2 miles	15
Monroe Estates	5.2 miles	14
Monroe	5.8 miles	14
Martintown	8.6 miles	14
Juda	8.7 miles	15
Oakley	9.1 miles	18
Browntown	9.2 miles	14

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 Schneyville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7431908	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 1573791. 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.