LaRue, Wisconsin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Freedom Minelisted 2020 · 0.6 miles away

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.

• 1901 USGS Denzer quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS North Freedom quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS North Freedom NW quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:24000
• 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of LaRue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• North Freedom
• Rock Springs
• Black Hawk Manor
• Baraboo
• Crawford Crossing
• The Courtyards

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of LaRue: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Flagstone, 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.

Every working recorded in Sauk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577687. 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.