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LeRoy, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Leroy town. It lies in ZIP code area 53048. The Survey maps it on the Mayville North quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

LeRoy within Dodge County

On record in LeRoy

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4,088 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Leroy Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Leroy Town - 4,088 words.

Fires near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of LeRoy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 848 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeGRINDER WF
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeSOUTH POINT WF
16 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBRUMMOND WF
22 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeHODGE WF
30 June 2005Natural2.1 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeDEADWOOD
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeTRUCK WF
13 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeFRAG WF
12 June 2012Fireworksunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBUD COOK WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of LeRoy: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Calcium, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Oakfield QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Western Lime-Knowles QuarryCalciumProducer
El Dais Stone Company PlantStonePast Producer
Farmersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Farmersville QuarryStoneUnknown
Lehner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LeRoy in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLeroy-Horicon RAWS site. South to southeast wind gust of 73 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLeroy-Measured 61 mph at Horicon Marsh RAWS site.
March 2000HailLeroy-no account filed

Every storm 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
Farmersville1.9 miles10
Knowles3.0 miles10
Kekoskee3.0 miles10
Nasbro3.3 miles10
Brownsville4.7 miles9
Mayville5.5 miles10
Lomira6.3 miles9
Theresa7.0 miles9

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 LeRoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6506406The 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 1567988. 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.

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.