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Shelby, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Shelby town. It lies in ZIP code area 54601. It lies near Breidel Coulee. The Survey maps it on the La Crosse quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Shelby within La Crosse County

On record in Shelby

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Shelby between 2004 and 2020, burning about 32 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
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 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004198
27 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004189
5 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources68
15 May 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002320
8 April 2004Recreation and ceremony21 acresLaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeRUNNING SLOUGH
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8048
24 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8747
20 April 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugePOOL 8 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Shelby: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
La Crosse City QuarryStoneUnknown
La Crosse Sand QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lacrosse Sand and Gravel Co. MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bahr QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chipmonk Coulee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clements QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ober QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Torgerson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse 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
Maple Grove2.4 miles11
Calvert2.6 miles18
Herrington3.2 miles18
La Crosse4.7 miles18
Barre Mills5.6 miles16
Cold Springs6.1 miles18
Grand Crossing6.4 miles18
Saint Joseph6.4 miles16

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 ShelbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7493346The 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 1574002. 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.