Bigpatch, Wisconsin

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.

• 1902 USGS Mineral Point quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1952 USGS Platteville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bigpatch between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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.

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:

• Platteville
• Elmo
• Cuba City
• Georgetown
• Saint Rose
• Cornelia

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 80 workings within 5 miles of Bigpatch: 39 past producers, 38 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Stone, 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.

Every working recorded in Grant County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561787. 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.