BlockPipersville, Wisconsin
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ixonia town. It lies in ZIP code area 53094. The Survey maps it on the Watertown quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
206 words on this townshipThe History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Ixonia Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Pipersville and Ixonia Center are the two points of interest in this town. Jans H. Stren now seventy-seven years of age, claims to have been the first settler in that part of the Roc River A'^alley. Ixonia Center may be said to have been first located on the river, one mile ea: of its present site. At one time, there were two hotels, a steam saw-mill and a store (by Samui Piper) on the old site ; but when the railroad was built, in 1856, Ixonia Center took flight, i it were, and settled down in Sections 21 and 22, to become a station on the La Crosse Divisio of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The Postmasters at the Center have been Samui Piper, H. E. Iluniplirey and James McCall. There are now two stores, one saloon, one blac smith and turning shop, two shoemaker shops, one church, one cheese-factory, a public schoo and one elevator. The population is estimated at one hundred. "Old Man "McCall wt mong the first settlers, but that jolly old individual, Jans Strem, who remembers so vividly the reat amount of fun he had '" niit de var," insists that "I vas de fir^tee man; you can see lino hair."
Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
20 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pipersville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 30 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1901800 |
| 20 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2001619 |
| 15 June 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1801158 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
| 7 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 13 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804119 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 153 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pipersville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakfield Brick Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pipersville in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pipersville | $1,000 | A tree with a diameter around a foot down on the north side of the Rock River. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Pipersville | - | This was 1 of 17 tornadoes to occur in Wisconsin on the night of July 28th into the early morning hours of July 29th. This was the 13th overall tornado for the event. A line of storms developed in northern Wisconsin and pushed south into southern Wisconsin in the overnight hours of the 28th into the 29th of July with mainly brief tornadoes and damaging winds occurring. ||This tornado began a few country blocks east of tornado #12 and started near County Highway P near Aliceton Dr and then tracked to the south, damaging a number of structures along County Rd E, crossing I-94 before going through Concord. The tornado then went through rural areas before ending east of Willow Glen Rd. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ixonia | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Ebenezer | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Farmington | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Watertown | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Lake Lac La Belle | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Concord | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Grellton | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Spacious Acres | 7.7 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1571557. 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.