Breezy Knoll, 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.

• 1891 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1910 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Lake Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 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 110 fires within 5 miles of Breezy Knoll between 2003 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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:

• Lake Ripley
• Sylvan Mounds
• Cambridge
• Kroghville
• Oakland
• Aztalan

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Breezy Knoll: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 Jefferson 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 2515654. 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.