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Leslie, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Belmont town. It lies in ZIP code area 53510. It lies near Belmont Mound. The Survey maps it on the Mifflin quadrangle. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Leslie within Lafayette County

On record in Leslie

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Leslie between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2318
5 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2319
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1619
6 December 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20230

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Leslie: 23 past producers, 7 unknowns, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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
KingeterLead, ZincProspect1906
Negro Jim MineLead, Barium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerGalena
Reddy Seiling QuarryStoneUnknown
Upper Mississippi Valley ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Belmont QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hardy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Huggins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Judkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reddy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
AcmeZincPast Producer1906, 1907

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 3 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Leslie$1,500,000A narrow path of EF1 tornado damage. Numerous trees and power poles down. A large calf barn was nearly completely destroyed, killing two calves. Several pole barns were completely destroyed. Minor roof damage to a couple homes. A garage blown off the foundation.
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Leslie$300,000Damage was mainly to a barn lean-to which was distributed through a field behind the facility. Another barn had roofing damage going in the opposite direction on the same grounds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLeslie$30,000The roof of a poll shed was removed. A couple campers were rolled by the wind onto the median of highway 151.
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Leslie$30,000Numerous downed trees and snapped trees through the woods.
July 2007HailLeslie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Belmont2.9 miles13
Ipswich (historical)4.9 miles13
Elk Grove6.9 miles13
Truman8.1 miles12
Meekers Grove8.6 miles13
Slateford9.2 miles14
Jenkinsville9.4 miles13
Calamine11.0 miles12

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 LeslieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6530574The 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 1577699. 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.