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York Center, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in York town. It lies in ZIP code area 53559. The Survey maps it on the Marshall quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

York Center within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of York Center between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
16 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBERNDT TRASH PILE
4 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19095
10 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources172
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOX ROAD
6 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20042
2 April 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names York Center in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindYork Center$6,000A tree fell on top of a farm house in York Center.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)York Center-An EF0 tornado developed about 5.6 miles east of Bristol, near STH 73 just north of CTH V and moved east-southeast before dissipating just south of the intersection of Kasper Road and Tri-County Road. Sporadic damage to tree limbs and some corn was pushed down, but no structural damage was noted along the path, which averaged 20 yards. The EF-rating was based on DI 27 (TH), DOD2 which suggests maximum winds were around 65 mph. The exact start location is Lat 43.271694 and Lon -89.068583. The exact end location is Lat 43.269639 and Lon -89.008972.
November 2022HailYork Center-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
Deansville4.3 miles24
East Bristol4.8 miles9
Marshall4.9 miles24
Drovers Woods5.8 miles26
Bakers Corners (historical)6.5 miles9
City View Heights7.1 miles26
Burgess Corners7.4 miles26
Prairie View Heights7.7 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 York CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8055383The 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 1577104. 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.

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.