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Sylvania, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Yorkville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53177. The Survey maps it on the Sturtevant quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Sylvania within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

In the county-history sources

4,303 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Yorkville Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Yorkville Village - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sylvania between 2018 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203640
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184175
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182533
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources482
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182443
19 June 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202367
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources393
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18154

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine 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
Harvest View Estates2.1 miles16
Ives Grove2.1 miles16
Oakdale Estates2.4 miles16
Sturtevant3.4 miles16
Waxdale4.3 miles16
Yorkville4.7 miles18
Franksville4.9 miles17
Union Grove5.0 miles18

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 SylvaniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7660692The 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 1577847. 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.