Mendota, Wisconsin

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Lake View Sanatoriumlisted 1993 · 0.8 miles away
• Wisconsin Memorial Hospital Historic Districtlisted 1988 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1890 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1904 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Waunakee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Waunakee quadrangle1:24000
• 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

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

A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin : Including the Four Lake Country : to July, 1874, with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County and Its Towns, published 1874 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Mendota between 2003 and 2020, burning about 559 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Catfish (historical)
• Maple Bluff
• Darwin (historical)
• Oak Park Terrace
• Elmside
• Hoepkers Corners

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mendota: 7 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.

Every working recorded in Dane County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendota in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Dane County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1842544. 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.