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Hubbleton, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Milford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53094. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Hubbleton within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

In the county-history sources

276 words on this township

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Milford Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This section of Jefferson County, in point of agricultural wealth, is not unlike other loca ities already described. The Crawfish River passes through the town from north to .soutl entering from Dodge County, in Section 6, at a point where the post office of Hubbleton located. L. P. Drake and M. L. Bartlett were the first settlers in the town. The region aboi Hubbleton is wet and niarsshy, and was at one time a favorite resort for hunters from Milwaukci etc. At an early day, traders came from almost every quarter to barter with the Indians, wL had a large and important camp on the river. The old plank-road from Watertown to Waterlc passed through Hubbleton. A man named Campbell built a steam saw-mill years ago, whic furnished lumber to a large proportion of the population, until it was destroyed by fire. Mi Edwards, the Postmaster and storekeeper of the place, put up a small mill three or four yeai ago. Howell Brosi' stave-mill was at one time one of the institutions of the place. Hubbleto is the onlj' station between Watertown and Waterloo on the Madison Branch of the Chicagi Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.

Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.

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 Milford Town.

Fires near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hubbleton between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,584 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
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
30 May 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801057
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarism290 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarism1,100 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000663

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hubbleton in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindHubbleton$40,000Powerful thunderstorms winds rolled through the Ixonia area. Damage consited of shingles ripped off of roofs, 6 imploded windows in a home, a gas tank blown over, numerous uprooted or snapped large trees, and downed power-lines. Based on measured wind gusts with similar storms that affected the Juneau area in Dodge County, the Ixonia winds were estimated at about 74 knots (85 mph).
June 2024Tornado (EF1)Hubbleton$6,000An EF-1 rated tornado touched down near the intersection of County Roads Q and T west of Watertown, moving northeastward. Significant damage occurred at a farm along West Rd.
October 2019FloodHubbleton$2,000The Crawfish River at Milford reached minor flood stage, cresting at 8.38 feet during the early morning of October 9th. There is widespread flooding of agricultural land and lowland. There is widespread flooding in Riverbend Campground, about 5 miles upstream of Milford.
July 2024FloodHubbleton$1,000There is widespread flooding of agricultural land and lowland. There is widespread flooding in Riverbend Campground, about 5 miles upstream of Milford.
August 2018FloodHubbleton$1,000The Crawfish River reached minor flood stage and continued to rise into early September. There was widespread flooding of lowland and agricultural land, and the flooding of roads in Riverbend Campground about 5 miles upstream of Milford.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHubbleton-Public report of three uprooted trees and a toppled shed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHubbleton-Public report of three uprooted trees and a toppled shed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHubbleton-Public report of eight uprooted trees and roof damage to a garage 4 miles west of Watertown.
September 2018FloodHubbleton-The Crawfish River reached minor flood stage at the end of August, and crested at 8.62 feet the morning of September 8th. There was widespread flooding of lowland and agricultural land, and the flooding of roads in Riverbend Campground about 5 miles upstream of Milford.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Portland4.9 miles16
Waterloo5.7 miles16
Grellton6.4 miles15
Milford6.7 miles15
Hoopers Mill6.7 miles16
Lake Mills7.9 miles16
Watertown8.1 miles19
Aztalan8.4 miles15

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 HubbletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714467The 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 1566785. 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.

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.