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Hayton, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Charlestown town. It lies in ZIP code area 53014. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Potter quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Hayton within Calumet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hayton between 2003 and 2020, burning about 24 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 May 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2003Recreation and ceremony1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 December 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources84
19 October 2010Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hayton: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Chilton QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Haepner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arnold Ortlepp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brocker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schneider PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayton in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
June 2014Heavy RainHayton-Thunderstorms produced multiple rounds of heavy rainfall during the late afternoon hours. The heavy rain caused street flooding east of Chilton, near the intersection of Highway 51 and T.
June 2014Heavy RainHayton-Thunderstorms produced multiple rounds of heavy rainfall during the late afternoon hours. Runoff from a recently plowed field left 10 inches of mud covering the road southeast of Chilton, near the intersection of Highway 57 and Redwood Road.
July 2008HailHayton-Winds estimated at 50 mph and heavy rainfall accompanied golf ball size hail that fell near Hayton.

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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
Gravesville1.9 miles9
Chilton2.5 miles9
Charlesburg4.6 miles10
Meggers5.3 miles10
New Holstein5.3 miles10
Brant5.8 miles9
Potter6.8 miles9
Kloten8.0 miles10

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 HaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5687309The 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 1566223. 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.