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Bluffview, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sumpter town. It lies in ZIP code area 53951. It lies near Baxters Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sauk Prairie quadrangle. 536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Bluffview within Sauk County

Population over time

2 figures

Bluffview fell from 742 to 536 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.

YearPeople Change
2010742
2020536-206 (-28%)

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.

In the county-history sources

13,020 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 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sumpter Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sumpter Town - 13,020 words.

Fires near this place

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Bluffview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning37
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAPPY HILL WHEAT
3 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE PINE
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2020Debris and open burning1.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAGAZINE UNIT
23 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bluffview: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Matousek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spencer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Moon Valley5.3 miles22
Black Hawk Manor6.1 miles19
Crawford Crossing6.2 miles24
Denzer6.3 miles19
Prairie du Sac6.4 miles22
Baraboo7.1 miles24
West Baraboo7.1 miles19
Sauk City7.4 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.

Wikipedia article on BluffviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4930706The 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 1577519. 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.