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Tavera, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 53518. It lies near Beebe Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mount Zion quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Tavera within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Tavera between 1992 and 2019, burning about 226 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism1
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
24 August 2003Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGOLDEN LANE
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINTER LANE
6 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCIRCLE DR.
6 April 2011Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCON FOUND IT FIRE
6 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGRAHAM HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tavera: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Akan Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dosch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Excelsior QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Excelsior2.4 miles10
Wild Rose3.4 miles10
Five Points3.6 miles10
Jimtown4.8 miles10
Westport5.5 miles10
Sand Prairie5.7 miles10
Port Andrew6.7 miles10
Byrds Creek6.8 miles10

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 TaveraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7689056The 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 1577851. 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.