Platteville, Wisconsin

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Grant County

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 12 of 16 shown

• Agriculture and Manual Arts Building/Platteville State Normal Schoollisted 1985
• Bayley Avenue Historic Districtlisted 2007
• Beebe Houselisted 1979
• Division Street Historic Districtlisted 2007
• Jonathan H. Evans Houselisted 1982
• First Congregational Churchlisted 1985
• Main Street Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1990
• Mitchell-Rountree Houselisted 1972
• Rountree Halllisted 1974
• J. H. Rountree Mansionlisted 1986
• Leonard and Caroline Coates Houselisted 2021
• Edward and Mary Davies Houselisted 2023

Every listing in Grant County

Platteville grew from 11,224 to 11,836 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.

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.

• 1902 USGS Mineral Point quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1952 USGS Platteville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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

History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Platteville 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 13 fires within 5 miles of Platteville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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.

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:

• Bigpatch
• Elmo
• Cornelia
• Cuba City
• Ellenboro
• Georgetown

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Platteville: 54 past producers, 42 unknowns, 4 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, 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.

Every working recorded in Grant County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Platteville in 60 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 6 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 Grant County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1571593. 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.