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Dellwood, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dellona town. It lies in ZIP code area 53959. It stands on Dell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wisconsin Dells South quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Dellwood within Sauk County

On record in Dellwood

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Dellwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Other causes7
Fireworks6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2

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
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use7.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOAK HILL ROAD
4 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPAWS AND CLAWS
25 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHOOTING RANGE
2 August 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

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 Dellwood: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cummings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jesse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kettleson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Lee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wormet PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Lake Delton3.6 miles17
Deer Run Estates3.8 miles17
Rock Springs6.4 miles19
The Courtyards7.0 miles16
West Baraboo7.2 miles19
North Freedom7.3 miles19
Baraboo8.2 miles24
Greens Corners8.4 miles15

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 DellwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254232The 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 1563890. 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.