BlockFlora Fountain, Wisconsin
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Beetown town. It lies in ZIP code area 53813. It stands on Blake Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1900 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Beetown town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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The principal crime which has been committed in Beetown was the murder of De Lasseaux (or De Lassaulx) by a miner named Robert B. Brewer, in April, 1846. The murdered man was a smelter, a man of considerable means and good education, and Alsatian by birth, and a civil engineer by profession. He was very popular on account of his liberality, and respected on account of his ability and education.
In the county-history sources
8,426 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Beetown 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 Beetown Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Flora Fountain between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 100050 |
| 24 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20099 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Flora Fountain: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Jack | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite | |
| Eberle Mine | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite | |
| Eberle Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Peter Kershbaum Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ulehoven Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Vorwald Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Yellow Jacket Mine | Zinc, Lead | Unknown | Sphalerite | |
| Zenz Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Coon Hollow Mine | Zinc | Past 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Points | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Beetown | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Hurricane | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Diamond Grove | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Bloomington | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| North Andover | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lancaster | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Burton | 8.0 miles | 16 |
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 Flora Fountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5460294 | 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 1577601. 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.