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Middlebury, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Brigham town. It lies in ZIP code area 53507. It stands on Williams-Barneveld Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hollandale quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Middlebury within Iowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Middlebury between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20183
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20224
25 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018035
16 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20213
18 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018027

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa 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
Adamsville (historical)2.6 miles12
Hollandale5.1 miles12
Barneveld5.4 miles15
Ridgeway7.2 miles15
Moscow7.3 miles12
Jonesdale7.4 miles12
Hyde10.7 miles15
Waldwick11.3 miles13

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 MiddleburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18390653The 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 2760538. 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.