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Twin Bluffs, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orion town. It lies in ZIP code area 53556. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sextonville quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Twin Bluffs within Richland County

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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Twin Bluffs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 138 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 burning32
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 June 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJUNE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 Twin Bluffs: 1 past producer. None of them 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
Haney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Bluffs in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTwin Bluffs$10,000Several small sheds and outbuildings were damaged northwest of Sextonville.
June 2014Flash FloodTwin Bluffs-Runoff from heavy rain pushed small streams out of their banks with water over County Highway TB near the intersection with County Highway O south of Richland Center.
June 2008HailTwin Bluffs-Penny sized hail was reported near the intersection of Highways 58 and U.S. 14.
June 2008HailTwin Bluffs-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
Sextonville1.2 miles12
Aubrey3.0 miles12
Gotham3.7 miles10
Ithaca4.9 miles12
Richland Center5.7 miles12
Bear Valley6.7 miles11
Keyesville6.7 miles11
Neptune7.3 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 Twin BluffsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7858077The 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 1578627. 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.