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Sextonville, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Buena Vista town. It lies in ZIP code area 53556. It lies near Post Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sextonville quadrangle. 476 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Sextonville within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Sextonville fell from 551 to 476 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010551
2020476-75 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Sextonville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 71 acres in total. 1 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 burning29
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesONE HUNDRED
13 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRINGELSTETTER
31 July 2015Debris and open burning2.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIRD FIRE
29 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGOTHAM MARSH
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROLLERBALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sextonville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Haney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maple Nut Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sextonville in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 2 hail. 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 2006HailSextonville-no account filed
September 1994HailSextonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Twin Bluffs1.2 miles12
Aubrey2.5 miles12
Gotham3.8 miles10
Ithaca4.3 miles12
Bear Valley5.5 miles11
Keyesville5.7 miles11
Richland Center6.4 miles12
Neptune6.7 miles12

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 SextonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7458626The 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 1578620. 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.