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Hoffman Corners, Wisconsin

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cottage Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 53531. It lies near Liberty Mound. The Survey maps it on the Cottage Grove quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Hoffman Corners within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hoffman Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
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
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources239
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources232
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources160
2 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources66
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources65
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources63
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources92

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hoffman Corners: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. 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
Kreuger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
L. Kelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lunde QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rucks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Nora0.6 miles26
Door Creek2.1 miles26
Kegonsa4.1 miles19
Utica4.1 miles18
Deerfield4.5 miles23
Cottage Grove4.6 miles26
Taylors Corners5.2 miles26
Hope5.5 miles26

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 Hoffman CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5876594The 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 1842466. 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.