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Spring Bank Park, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greenfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54660. It lies near Pikes Peak. The Survey maps it on the Tunnel City quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Spring Bank Park within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Spring Bank Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 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
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning25
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes3
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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUCK FIRE
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesELGIN FIRE
22 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesANGRY SNAPPING TURTLE
21 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLATIRON AVE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Bank Park: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ostrine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Tunnel City2.9 miles14
Scotts Junction (historical)3.9 miles12
Jacksonville5.1 miles13
North Tomah5.6 miles14
Tomah6.5 miles13
Kirby7.2 miles14
Angelo8.7 miles14
Farmers Valley10.0 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 Spring Bank ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580380The 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 1574587. 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.