White City, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 54634. It lies near Saint Johns Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Yuba quadrangle. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

White City within Vernon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1927 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Yuba quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

5,842 words on this township

History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Town - 5,842 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of White City between 1995 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None 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 burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900026
6 May 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2012
11 May 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ROTT LANE
16 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dilly	1.8 miles	11
Greenwood	4.2 miles	11
Valley	5.0 miles	12
Mount Tabor	5.7 miles	11
Hillsboro	6.2 miles	11
Trippville	6.8 miles	11
Rockton	8.0 miles	12
La Farge	10.4 miles	12

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 White City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7994549	The 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 1577882. 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.