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Leipsig, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Beaver Dam town. It lies in ZIP code area 53916. It stands on Calamus Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Dam quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Leipsig within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Leipsig between 1992 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use138 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1908195
29 June 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2006173
30 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005142
15 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources74
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources114
8 April 2018Debris and open burning100 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources110
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources127

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge 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 Leipsig: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 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
Budde-Miller QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
C C Linck Garage QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Helen H Westphal QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dodge 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
South Beaver Dam3.0 miles10
North Lowell4.2 miles10
Beaver Dam4.2 miles11
Lowell4.9 miles10
Beaver Edge6.0 miles11
Astico6.2 miles10
Oak Grove6.4 miles10
Reeseville6.7 miles10

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 LeipsigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6520137The 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 1577695. 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.