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Louisburg, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jamestown town. It lies in ZIP code area 53807. The Survey maps it on the Kieler quadrangle.

Louisburg within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jamestown town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 - Jamestown Town

The Harney Murder

One of the most terrible crimes in the annals of the county was committed at Fairplay September 25,1865. Dr. Harney, an old resi¬ dent of the place, and a man of good character (except that he was subject to fits of almost insane anger), killed his step-daughter and seriously injured his wife. The daughter of Mrs.

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In the county-history sources

3,188 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Jamestown Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Jamestown Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Louisburg between 1996 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20052
31 May 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191476
24 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2000Debris and open burning5.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources31938

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Louisburg: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay Level MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Bob Richards QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
George Wendtlandt Inc Deiter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Klar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kowalski-Kieler Inc Kieler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisburg in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLouisburg$1,500,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLouisburg$30,000Ten power poles were snapped along County Road H, just east of Kieler. The town of Kieler was without power.
July 2025Flash FloodLouisburg$5,000Emergency management reported a washout along County Road H near Jamestown, with more dirt than water observed.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindLouisburg$2,000Trees were blown down between Kieler and Cuba City.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Jamestown0.7 miles17
Kieler2.5 miles17
Fair Play3.0 miles17
Prairie Corners3.2 miles17
Sandy Hook3.8 miles17
Dickeyville3.8 miles17
Sinsinawa3.9 miles17
Rutledge4.5 miles19

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 LouisburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6688584The 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 1568698. 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.