Yankeetown, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54655. It lies near Smith Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Readstown quadrangle.

Yankeetown within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1924 USGS Gays Mills quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Gays Mills quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Gays Mills quadrangle1:62500
1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Readstown quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Richland Center quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Yankeetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
27 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 61 FIRE
3 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FRANK ROAD FIRE
24 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	B AND C FIRE
14 June 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 2009	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TURKEY RIDGE FIRE
9 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LEMLEY ROAD
8 April 2011	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HESTETUNE MESH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Yankeetown: 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Judy Smith Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Edward Kraemer and Sons, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Moran Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Soldiers Grove	1.6 miles	10
Pine Knob	2.6 miles	10
Johnstown	3.2 miles	10
Montgomeryville	3.5 miles	10
Rolling Ground	4.6 miles	10
North Clayton	4.7 miles	10
Gays Mills	5.0 miles	10
Towerville	5.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2760638. 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.