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Ashton Corners, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Springfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 53562. The Survey maps it on the Springfield Corners quadrangle.

Ashton Corners within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

22 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Ashton Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural1
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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources246
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources342
17 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHIPPORWILL
15 June 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources305
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources304
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources215
16 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1811527
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources154

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ashton Corners: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Essers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Frank H Raemisch and Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Middleton-Watson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northwestern StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Westport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yahara Materials Company Kipley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zeigler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ziegler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashton Corners in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 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
April 2023HailAshton Corners-Multiple reports of quarter size hail north of Middleton.
May 2025HailAshton Corners-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
Ashton1.1 miles15
Kingsley Corners2.9 miles24
Middleton3.1 miles17
Pheasant Branch3.2 miles25
Springfield Corners4.3 miles15
Mendota Beach4.4 miles25
Martinsville4.6 miles15
Waunakee5.0 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1560984. 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.