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Utica, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Christiana town. It lies in ZIP code area 53589. The Survey maps it on the Rockdale quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Utica within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Utica between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources232
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources160
30 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20841
11 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019093
2 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107
8 May 2018Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018051
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019038

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Utica: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Carpenter Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kaupanger-Ramsey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kreuger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lunde QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rucks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utica in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. 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
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Utica$160,000Tornado appears to have started west of I-39 along Church Rd where it tracked to the north side before hitting a farmstead along Highway 73. Two metal barn structures were completely destroyed with sheet metal from these buildings found in the trees in the far farm hill to the east. A cement silo was also lifted up and had 3 large chunks of the cap broken off of it. The tornado appears to have gone southeast toward County Road A before ending near Woodside School Rd. Extensive straight line/rear flank downdraft wind damage occurred about a mile or two to the south of the tornado with one farm shed destroyed along Highway 73 south of Thornson Rd. Sheet metal from this building appeared to be tumbled into the nearby field to the east.
June 1999HailUtica$2,000no account filed
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Utica-This weak tornado spun up in a rural area south-southwest of Utica near Tower Drive, and moved northeast and crossed Washington Road about 1/2 mile north of Kaas Road, and dissipated near an old quarry near the intersection of Washington Road and East Church Road. It resulted in only minor tree damage - of the broken tree branch variety. The starting and ending locations, with respect to lat/long pairs of numbers, were 42.92758/-89.14221 and 43.95491/-89.10805. DI#28 (TS), DOD2. Wind speed estimated at about 75 mph.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUtica-Powerful thunderstorms winds knocked large branches out of several trees.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindUtica-Trees down.
June 2010HailUtica-no account filed
June 2009HailUtica-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudUtica-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudUtica-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindUtica-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Hoffman Corners4.1 miles26
Kegonsa4.2 miles19
Hillside4.7 miles18
Nora4.7 miles26
Rockdale4.8 miles18
Petty Acres5.3 miles19
Oak Knoll5.4 miles19
Door Creek5.6 miles26

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 UticaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7902761The 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 1576007. 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.