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Loddes Mill, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Prairie du Sac town. It lies in ZIP code area 53583. It sits by Loddes Mill Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Sauk Prairie quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Loddes Mill within Sauk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

234 words on this township

The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Prairie Du Sac Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Prairie Du Sac Town - 234 words.

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Loddes Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning54
Equipment and vehicle use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUSSEL SMOKE
6 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFITZGERALD YARD
5 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSNUFFYS
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBREUNIG RD
13 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY Y FIRE
24 July 2008Recreation and ceremony4.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesO COMPLEX #3
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesO COMPLEX #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk 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 Loddes Mill: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Hildebrandt Stone Company QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Matousek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pulvermacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Sauk City4.2 miles22
Prairie du Sac4.4 miles22
Witwen4.8 miles19
Black Hawk6.7 miles19
Denzer7.2 miles19
Bluffview7.5 miles19
Leland9.2 miles19
Moon Valley10.0 miles22

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 Loddes MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666219The 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 1581158. 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.