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Five Points, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Verona town. The Survey maps it on the Middleton quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Five Points within Dane 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Five Points (historical) between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Smoking2
Natural1

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
24 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources480
14 August 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018928
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1195
25 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources471
2 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012493
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
16 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1811527
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2008302

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Five Points (historical): 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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
Hammersley No. 1 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kapel-Marquardt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Haen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammersly Construction CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marty PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weiland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Verona1.7 miles15
Middleton Junction3.1 miles17
West Middleton3.7 miles17
Riley4.8 miles17
Fitchburg5.1 miles20
Mendota Beach5.7 miles25
Middleton5.8 miles17
Pilgrim Village5.9 miles25

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 Five Points (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8563494The 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 1577599. 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.