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Burton, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Waterloo town. It lies in ZIP code area 53820. The Survey maps it on the Balltown quadrangle.

Burton within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Burton: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, 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
Black JackZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Martin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pennecamp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yellow Jacket MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Seng Farm ProspectZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burton in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 19 flood, 4 heavy rain, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009HailBurton$2,500no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBurton$500no account filed
April 2025HailBurton-A CoCoRaHS observer reported ping pong ball sized hail 3 miles north-northwest of Burton.
May 2024HailBurton-Report of 0.75 inch hail from MPING application 2 miles NW of Burton.
February 2023FloodBurton-Runoff from the combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested almost two feet above the flood stage at 19.75 feet.
August 2022Heavy RainBurton-Northeast of Cassville, 2.8 inches of rain fell.
March 2019FloodBurton-Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested almost four feet above the flood stage at 21.83 feet on March 14th.
October 2019FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over three feet above the flood stage at 21.23 feet on the 2nd.
September 2019FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested a foot and a half above the flood stage at 19.5 feet.
September 2019Heavy RainBurton-Northwest of Burton, 4.55 inches of rain fell.
September 2019FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over five feet above the flood stage at 23.54 feet.
September 2019FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over five feet above the flood stage at 23.3 feet on the 20th.
January 2018FloodBurton-Ice jams and runoff from heavy rain caused flooding along the Grant River near Burton. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 22.28 feet.
February 2018FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over two and a half feet above the flood stage at 20.65 feet.
September 2018FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 22.22 feet.
June 2018FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested a foot and a half above the flood stage at 19.61 feet on the 10th.
October 2018FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage on October 2nd.
October 2018FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested just over a foot above the flood stage at 19.15 feet.
October 2018FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton for the second time in three days. The river crested about a half foot above the flood stage at 18.43 feet.
July 2017FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested over eight feet above the flood stage at 26.45 feet.
July 2017Heavy RainBurton-Near Burton, 7.20 inches of rain fell.
February 2016FloodBurton-An ice jam pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested a little over a foot above the flood stage at 19.12 feet.
July 2016FloodBurton-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested almost three above the flood stage at 20.82 feet.
January 2013FloodBurton-Runoff from snow melt and heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks near Burton. The river crested almost two and a half feet above the flood stage at 20.45 feet.
March 2013FloodBurton-Runoff from snow melt and heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks twice near Burton. The highest crest on the river was over two and a half feet above the flood stage at 20.73 feet.
July 2010FloodBurton-Locally heavy rains pushed the Grant River out of its banks in the vicinity of Burton on July 24th. The river exceeded the flood stage by over two feet cresting at 20.32 feet.
July 2010Heavy RainBurton-An automated mesonet weather system measured 3.28 inches of rain in 3.5 hours. 2.07 inches of the total fell in one hour.
February 1997Flash FloodBurton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
McCartney3.0 miles16
Hurricane5.2 miles16
Van Buren5.6 miles16
Potosi5.9 miles16
Beetown6.4 miles16
Five Points6.7 miles16
Buena Vista6.9 miles16
British Hollow7.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562456. 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.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.