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Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mount Horeb Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53572. The Survey maps it on the Cross Plains quadrangle. 7,754 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.

Mount Horeb within Dane County

On record in Mount Horeb

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Horeb grew from 7,009 to 7,754 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,009
20207,754+745 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Mount Horeb between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 burning18
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-2833
22 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19321
22 July 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19250
8 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2003Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesANDREWS LANE
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1226

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mount Horeb: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Brighams MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
General Silica Division PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Henderson Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jensen QuarryStoneUnknown
Mickelson QuarryStoneUnknown
Reilly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ringgenberg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swenson QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Little Norway3.0 miles16
Klevenville3.9 miles16
Blue Mounds5.0 miles16
Elvers5.3 miles16
Pine Bluff5.7 miles16
Mount Vernon6.1 miles14
Riley6.2 miles17
Daleyville7.6 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 Mount HorebAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2226176The 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 1569817. 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.