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Cashton, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cashton Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54619. The Survey maps it on the Westby quadrangle. 1,158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Cashton within Monroe County

On record in Cashton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cashton grew from 1,102 to 1,158 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
20101,102
20201,158+56 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

2,722 words on this township

History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, Past and Present : Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County [microform], published 1912 names this settlement in its chapter on Cashton Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Eighteen miles south of Sparta, on an elevation 700 feet above the county seat of Monroe county, overlooking one of the prettiest districts of farm lands in western Wisconsin, stands the village of Cashton. The land Avhere the village is located is on section thirty, township fifteen, north of range three Avest, in the town of Jefferson, and was formerly OAvned l)y Andrew Nelson and Hans Larson, the latter of whom is still living near the village.

Passage source: History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, Past and Present : Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County [microform], published 1912.

One thing that troubled the people of Cashton very much during the first years of the existence of the village was the water supply. For a long time the only water works in the village were four barrels which were set in a small building near the depot, and Mr. P. R. Mitby was engaged to haul water from the railroad tank and from Jersey's spring, and the people went to him for their water. A little later Mr. Cash made a contract with someone to drill a well to furnish water for the village, and agreed to give a public square on the west side for a park if the well was completed, but it failed to materialize and so Cashton is still without her park, although there is now a sufficient water supply.

Passage source: History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, Past and Present : Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County [microform], published 1912.

In June, 1881, the citizens met for the purpose of devising a way to provide sufficient water for the village, and propositions were made and accepted for a well which was drilled by John Miuroth, in the street, near Broadway, then a part of the town of Jefferson, permission having been given by said town to have the well drilled. A water association was organized and its officers were : President, M. Daniels ; vice president, J. Dahl ; secretary, John King ; treasurer, John Konper ; trustees, J. W. Wagner, G. V. Hargrave and P. E. Nelson. On May 31, 1892, the water association voted to turn over its property to the village of Cashton, which was incorporated June, 1892. An election having been previously held to determine the question, which result was a vote of fifty-five for and ten against it.

Passage source: History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, Past and Present : Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County [microform], published 1912.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Cashton Village - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cashton between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 April 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources468
27 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources529

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cashton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Seas Branch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cashton in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCashton$1,000,000Elementary school roof blown off
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCashton$175,000no account filed
September 2016Flash FloodCashton$170,000Street flooding occurred in Sparta. In addition, water was across several roads over the western portions of the county. Twenty five homes were damaged by the flood waters.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCashton$5,000Sporadic wind damage occurred along State Highway 33 west of Cashton.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindCashton$4,000A tree was blown down on a home with other trees down on power lines on Newport Road near Cashton.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCashton$3,000Damage to corn fields occurred in the Cashton area from thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCashton$2,500no account filed
May 2001HailCashton$1,500no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCashton$750no account filed
August 2018Heavy RainCashton-In Cashton, 7.25 inches of rain fell.
April 2015HailCashton-Half dollar sized hail was reported south of Melvina.
April 2015HailCashton-Quarter sized hail was reported in Cashton.
March 2007HailCashton-no account filed
April 2004HailCashton-no account filed
June 2001HailCashton-no account filed
June 2001HailCashton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Melvina4.4 miles13
Portland4.6 miles13
Saint Marys6.2 miles11
Leon9.7 miles14
Oil City10.2 miles11
Norwalk10.4 miles11
Farmers Valley11.0 miles12
Sparta14.1 miles14

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 CashtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671083The 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 1562772. 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.

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.