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West Lima, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bloom town. It lies in ZIP code area 54639. The Survey maps it on the West Lima quadrangle.

West Lima 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of West Lima between 1992 and 2020, burning about 201 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2003Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900026
11 June 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 West Lima: 5 past producers. 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
Jake Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joseph QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mullendorf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spangler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thompson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Lima in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Lima-The public reported a tree down in West Lima.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWest Lima-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
Bloom City5.0 miles12
Yuba5.4 miles11
Tunnelville6.8 miles12
Woodstock7.5 miles12
Henrietta (historical)7.6 miles11
Viola7.8 miles12
Sabin8.3 miles10
Gillingham9.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1576530. 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.