Yorkville, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Yorkville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53182. The Survey maps it on the Union Grove quadrangle. 3,246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Yorkville within Racine County

On record in Yorkville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Yorkville #4 Schoollisted 2011

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1893 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1906 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Union Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

4,303 words on this township

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Yorkville Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

DONAIiD jHUNBOE, farmer. Sec. 19; P.O. Union Grove; bom in Rosshire, Scotland, in 1813 ; came to New York City in 1836 ; worked there, and in Ottawa, III., at stonecutting for about .three y«afs ; came to Racine in 1839 ; bought 160 acres in Yorkville; afterward came to present location and settled on 160 acres; through industry and frugality has a comfortable home, good farm and competency. Married in 1844, in Scotland; have had eight children, six living - William, Isabella, Christiana, Helen, Henry and Mark ; John and David died ; VVilliam is a civil engineer in Colorado. Mr. Munroe and wife are members of the U. P. Church.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

SAHUEL H. SKE WES, merchant, Union Grove; born in Cornwall, England, in 1817; came to Milwaukee in 1842, to Yorkville, Nov. 9, 1842. Married in Cornwall, England, April 16, 1842, Mary Thomas, then a resident of Cornwall ; when he first came to Ytrrkville, he was carpenUT and builder by trade, and had worked in Milwaukee for Mr. Church, a contrador and builder ; he followed his trade here for fifteen years until 1857, and then engaged in farming; was appoiutcd Agent and Truiitee of the Union Grove Land Co., for the sale of land owned by them, and for the last five years, has been engaged - in the agricultural machinery business. Mr. Skewes was one of the first settlers of this town ; when he came here there was only a shanty sixteen feet square in the whole village, which shanty has stood a relic of old times until the 12th of April, 1879, when it burned down, with several other stores and dwellings. His wife died in May, 1865, and is buried in Yorkville. He married again in Lyons, Iowa, in December, 1873, Caroline Goldsworthy, a resident of Yorkville; she also died, Dec. 29, 1876, and is buried in Yorkville ; has two children - Ella and Howard. Ella married, in 1873, Frank Adams, of Paris, Wis.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Yorkville Village - it names this place 11 more 11 times.

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Yorkville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20065
10 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	482
14 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	393
26 April 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18037
11 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	25
9 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	111
23 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18023
19 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine 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
Ives Grove	3.3 miles	16
North Cape	3.4 miles	17
Union Grove	3.9 miles	18
Raymond	4.1 miles	17
Harvest View Estates	4.2 miles	16
Beaumont	4.4 miles	18
Thompsonville	4.7 miles	17
Sylvania	4.7 miles	16

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 Yorkville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8055820	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 1577111. 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.