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Fairfield, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Darien town. It lies in ZIP code area 53114. The Survey maps it on the Avalon quadrangle. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Fairfield within Walworth County

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.

In the county-history sources

15,893 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Darien Town. 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 Darien Town - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 2018 and 2019, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources117
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources135
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19126
29 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources134
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources130
30 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98
26 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources89

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Braukoff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ames PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bradford Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Koehl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Schutt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Triebold PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walworth 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
Allens Grove3.7 miles16
Darien4.2 miles19
Pioneer Estates4.6 miles19
Richmond5.8 miles19
Delavan7.0 miles19
Delavan Lake8.3 miles19
Sharon9.4 miles19
Lake Lawn9.7 miles19

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 FairfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430235The 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 1564806. 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.