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Elk Grove, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elk Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 53807. The Survey maps it on the Platteville quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Elk Grove within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Elk Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018057
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064
18 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202011
8 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20208
7 November 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesIPSWICH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Elk Grove: 43 unknowns, 32 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Raisbeck MineZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadUnknownBarite
Beloit-ElmoLead, ZincPast Producer1908, 1909
Big Patch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Goke-BlockhouseLead, ZincPast Producer1920, 1921
Hoeper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
KingeterLead, ZincProspect1906
Mauthe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Big JackZinc, LeadPast Producer1926, 1941
BlockhouseZinc, LeadPast Producer1914, 1916
CrusonZinc, LeadPast Producer1908, 1909

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk Grove in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindElk Grove$15,000Widespread tree damage across the county. Corn damage in the Elk Grove area.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindElk Grove$3,000A short and sporadic path of tree damage, and a panel peeled off the south side of a barn and displaced in a field to the north northeast.
June 2017Flash FloodElk Grove-Over 3 hours of heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused flash flooding. Many roads were closed due to water running across them. The flooding was concentrated in the southeastern portion of the county. Radar rainfall estimates were up to 7 inches in some spots.
April 2020HailElk Grove-no account filed
June 1998FloodElk Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Meekers Grove2.1 miles13
Ipswich (historical)2.7 miles13
Jenkinsville2.8 miles13
Belmont5.4 miles13
Leslie6.9 miles13
Benton7.1 miles14
Lead Mine7.4 miles12
Etna8.0 miles12

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 Elk GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5364007The 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 1564524. 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.