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Lake Windsor, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Windsor Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53532. It stands on Wheeler Wilcox Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Forest quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Lake Windsor within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

20 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Lake Windsor between 2003 and 2020, burning about 563 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1060
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1183
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1822998
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources955
24 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1815050
4 May 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources608
9 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources549

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lake Windsor: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Endres QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Madison Stone Co Inc Ghost Hill QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Paulson Schwenn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Francis Nordness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Madison Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Token Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Windsor1.0 miles24
Token Creek2.9 miles24
De Forest3.0 miles24
Raintree3.2 miles24
Sunburst3.6 miles24
Wynbrooke3.6 miles24
Sherwood Glen4.0 miles24
Norway Grove4.2 miles24

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 Lake WindsorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6478513The 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 1567765. 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.