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Black Hawk Manor, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Baraboo City. It lies in ZIP code area 53913. The Survey maps it on the North Freedom quadrangle.

Black Hawk Manor within Sauk County

On record in Black Hawk Manor

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 within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

What happened here

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

From 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 - Baraboo City

The Independent

In the spring of 1866, D. K. Noyes, after returning home from the war with one foot shot off, in casting about for a business occupation, fastened his mind upon the printing business, and made efforts to purchase the Republic, but, failing in that, he purchased and brought on an office equip* ment, and started a paper, entitling it "The Independent," D.

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In the county-history sources

69,180 words on this township

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; The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, published 1880; A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1918 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Baraboo City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Baraboo City - 69,180 words.

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Black Hawk Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGALL FENCED-IN BARREL
3 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PINE
29 September 1997Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPAWS AND CLAWS
23 August 2015Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDL LIGHTNING STRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Black Hawk Manor: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Silica, 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
Baraboo OperationSilicaUnknown
Spencer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cahoon MineIronPast Producer1915, 1916, 1925
Cahoon MineIronPast Producer1915, 1916
Brown Pit # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Farms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Goerks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Halsted PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Halsted PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Baraboo1.2 miles24
West Baraboo1.3 miles19
Crawford Crossing1.6 miles24
North Freedom5.8 miles19
Bluffview6.1 miles19
LaRue7.1 miles19
Greens Corners7.4 miles15
Moon Valley7.6 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122551317The 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 2612462. 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.