Burgess Corners, 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.

• 1890 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1896 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 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 9 fires within 5 miles of Burgess Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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:

• City View Heights
• Prairie View Heights
• Sun Prairie
• Buss's Corners (historical)
• Drovers Woods
• Hilton Estates

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burgess Corners: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 Dane 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 1842350. 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.