Lauderdale, Wisconsin

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in La Grange town. It lies in ZIP code area 53121. It lies near Dewings Island. The Survey maps it on the Little Prairie quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Lauderdale within Walworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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.

1892 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1903 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1924 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Little Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Whitewater quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

13,030 words on this township

History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on La Grange Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

La Grange is one of the northern tier of towns, situated east of Whitewater and north of Sugar Creek. Speaking generally, the northern and soi^theastern portions of the town consist of rolling or hilly land, the central and southwestern of prairie land. The central sections of the town are quite flat, with slight elevations and sand-sinks. These latter are more frequent than in other parts of the county. An exception to the general hilly character of the north is the northwestern corner, in which is located a marsh containing some five sections. The direction of the hills and bluffs is from northeast to southwest. Heart Prairie, in the southwest, contains about six sections of land, and Kound Prairie, in the center of the town, one. The soil in these localities is not sandy and gravelly as in the north, but consists of clay loam and sand, mixed. To the east, its character changes to a heavy clay or sand. Originally, most of the town consisted of oak openings, \vith small gi-oves of black and white oak. The town is well watered. The Soiith Branch of the Scuf)ernong flows north through Sections 6 and 7 and a portion of 18, into Jefferson County. Pleasant Lake, in Section 24, Green, Middle and Mill Lakes, Sections 25, 26, 35 and 36, are situated in the southwestern corner. The latter three have Honey Creek as an outlet, which runs in an easterly direction. These bodies of water are smrounded generally by high bluffs and timbered land. Pickerel, pike, rock and black bass, perch, etc., find their natiu-al homes in them. They have been stocked also with Mackinaw trout. The depth of the water varies from ten to sixty feet. The town is given up almost entirely to farming, there be- no villages within its limits. Nearly eveiy variety of small grain is raised, the average yield being: Wheat, ten bushels per acre; oats, thirty; and corn, twenty-five. Very few of tJEte farms are devoted to dairying, the only butter and cheese factory in town, operated hy W. D. Stow, being biu'ned in 1879. The raising of swine is can-ied on quite extensively, B. Fowler, a resident of Heart Prairie, being particularly successful in bringing his breed of Poland-China pigs to a high state of perfection.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.

The first school in town was a private one, opened on Round Prairie in 1840, and taught by Melissa Cornish. Now, the town of La Grange consists of foiu- school districts and six joint districts, in which are 301 children of school age. Of this munber, the attendance is 211. The schools munber eight, and the teachers eight; wages of the male teachers, $32 per month, and female, $21.75. The schoolhouses are valued at $3,000; sites, $250; apparatus, $25; total valuation, $3,275.

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 La Grange Town - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Lauderdale between 2018 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19012
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	153
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	137
6 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19011
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	172
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18026
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	170
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lauderdale: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Paddock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Potter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Walworth 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lauderdale Shores	1.1 miles	32
Tibbets	2.5 miles	19
Adams	2.7 miles	32
Abells Corners	2.8 miles	19
La Grange	3.4 miles	32
Mayhews (historical)	3.5 miles	24
Millard	4.1 miles	19
Heart Prairie	4.6 miles	32

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 Lauderdale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6497847	The 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 1567874. 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.