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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Shopiere quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Avalon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Shopiere quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
15,893 words on this townshipThe 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 2018Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 191 |
| 4 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 117 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 135 |
| 3 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19126 |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 134 |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 130 |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 98 |
| 26 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 89 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braukoff Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ames Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bradford Township Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Koehl Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Schutt Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Triebold Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allens Grove | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Darien | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Pioneer Estates | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Richmond | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Delavan | 7.0 miles | 19 | |
| Delavan Lake | 8.3 miles | 19 | |
| Sharon | 9.4 miles | 19 | |
| Lake Lawn | 9.7 miles | 19 |
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 Fairfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5430235 | The 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.







