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Fayette, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fayette town. It lies in ZIP code area 53530. The Survey maps it on the Waldwick quadrangle. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Fayette 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fayette between 1999 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 April 2019Arson/incendiarism14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19031
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9006000
30 March 1999Debris and open burning60 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4677
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesYELLOWSTONE GUN RANGE FIRE
7 November 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064
2 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20060
31 October 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20059

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette 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 Fayette: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Olson QuarryStoneUnknown
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Calvert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerUnderground
Calvert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
George Wendtlandt, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
King QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayette in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindFayette$50,000Multiple grain and fertilizer bins blown over or collapsed. The roof and wall on one end of a pole barn severely damaged with the debris damaging a home and cattle building. Minor damage to a home when a swing set was blown into it. A portion of the roof to a small and old shed pealed off. Another small shed blown over. An uprooted tree.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFayette$30,000A large poll shed was mostly destroyed by straight line winds.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFayette$1,000Damage to the roof of a building on Highway G.

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
Lamont4.3 miles14
Yellowstone (historical)4.6 miles13
Darlington6.6 miles12
Calamine6.8 miles12
Avon7.7 miles12
Red Rock7.7 miles12
Slateford8.7 miles14
Wiota9.2 miles14

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 FayetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5439000The 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 1564892. 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.