Baraboo, Wisconsin

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Sauk County

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 12 of 21 shown

• Bear & Deer HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1969
• Baraboo Chicago & North Western Depot and Division Officeslisted 2022
• Baraboo Public Librarylisted 1981
• William Clark Houselisted 1980
• Devil's Lake State Parklisted 2015
• Downtown Baraboo Historic Districtlisted 2015
• Gust Brothers' Storelisted 2002
• Island Woolen Company Office Buildinglisted 2011
• Manchester Street Bridgelisted 1988
• Point of Rockslisted 2010
• Albrecht C. Ringling Houselisted 1976
• Ruhland, Charles and Annalisted 2017

Every listing in Sauk County

Baraboo grew from 12,048 to 12,556 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1895 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1908 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Baraboo NW quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Baraboo city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Outline Sketches of Sauk County; Including Its History, from the First Marks of Man's Hand ... and Its Topography, Both Written and Illustrated, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Baraboo City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Baraboo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Baraboo
• Black Hawk Manor
• Crawford Crossing
• Bluffview
• Greens Corners
• LaRue

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Baraboo: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sauk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baraboo in 58 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 23 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Sauk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561152. 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.