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Darwin, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Madison City. It lies in ZIP code area 53704. The Survey maps it on the De Forest quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Darwin within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Madison city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin : Including the Four Lake Country : to July, 1874, with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County and Its Towns, published 1874 - Madison City

Chapter

Village and Town Elections 1846-49 - Water Power - Celebra¬ tion, July 4, 1846 - Public Cemetery - Dr. C. B. Chapman's and J. T. Clark's Reminiscences - Hope Lodge I. O. O. F. - Knapp's Account of Capitol Grounds - L. J. Farwell's Arrival - First Bell in Madison - Organization of Baptist Church 1847 - Trial of Gross for Murder - Growth of Village, 1848 - State Historical Society, 1849 - State University.

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In the county-history sources

304,850 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Madison City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Madison City - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

32 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Darwin (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 561 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2021851
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1822998
29 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020209
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019797
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1225
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2017339
24 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1815050
23 June 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2014375

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Darwin (historical): 6 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Fess QuarryStoneUnknown
John Hensen QuarryStoneUnknown
Madison Stone Co Inc Ghost Hill QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Milwaukee Street QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ziegler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blooming Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Engelhart Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Madison Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norway Grove Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yanggen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Oak Park Terrace0.3 miles24
Maple Bluff1.6 miles25
Mendota2.2 miles24
Elmside2.5 miles23
Catfish (historical)3.1 miles24
Burke4.0 miles24
Sherwood Glen4.1 miles24
Tonyawatha4.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1842372. 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.