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Denzer, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Honey Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 53951. It lies near Pine Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Black Hawk quadrangle. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Denzer within Sauk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

924 words on this township

Guide Book to the Wild & Romantic Scenery in Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1873 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Honey Creek Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Honey Creek Town - 924 words.

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Denzer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use34
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAPPY HILL WHEAT
26 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesELM ROAD FIRE
31 May 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFARM ALL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Denzer: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
Denzer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Matousek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Leland3.3 miles19
Witwen4.1 miles19
Black Hawk5.6 miles19
Bluffview6.3 miles19
LaRue6.3 miles19
Loddes Mill7.2 miles19
North Freedom8.0 miles19
Plain9.5 miles11

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 DenzerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5259893The 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 1563909. 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.