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Ashton, 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 within Dane County

On record in Ashton

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

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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Ashton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19429
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
27 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources215

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ashton: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Westport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yahara Materials Company Kipley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ziegler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frank H Raemisch and Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Middleton-Watson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northwestern StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zander QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zeigler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashton in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
July 2017HailAshton-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
Ashton Corners1.1 miles15
Kingsley Corners3.5 miles24
Middleton3.6 miles17
Martinsville3.8 miles15
Springfield Corners3.8 miles15
Pheasant Branch3.9 miles25
Mendota Beach5.1 miles25
Middleton Junction5.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1560983. 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.