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Hill Point, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington town. It lies in ZIP code area 53937. It stands on Hill Point Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loganville quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Hill Point within Sauk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Hill Point between 1992 and 2018, burning about 116 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Other causes3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROUND-ABOUT BALE
10 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEADOW RD
11 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesW BANGER
30 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEECHY PASTURE
17 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBBQ HOG
8 May 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCORNFIELD FIRE #2
7 May 1992Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2013Debris and open burning9.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNELSON HILLSIDE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hill Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Chester Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Sandusky2.9 miles11
Lime Ridge3.7 miles11
Loganville4.2 miles11
Loreta5.5 miles11
Ironton8.5 miles11
Reedsburg9.5 miles11
Baders Villa Estates9.5 miles16
Leland10.7 miles19

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 Hill PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5762240The 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 1578567. 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.