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Roxbury, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Roxbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 53583. The Survey maps it on the Black Earth quadrangle.

Roxbury within Dane County

On record in Roxbury

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Roxbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning42
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUSSEL SMOKE
5 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSNUFFYS
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBREUNIG RD
24 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMATCH BAG
24 July 2008Recreation and ceremony4.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2007Recreation and ceremony4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roxbury: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Marxville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pulvermacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$100,000Firefighters reported numerous trees, power lines and some power poles downed by thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 75 mph (65 knots), along a 5-mile wide path from 2 miles northwest of Roxbury to 2.5 miles east of Marshall. An old barn was completely blown down; a shed was moved 4 feet off of it's foundation; and roof shingles, siding and downspouts were torn off of a couple of homes in the village of Dane.
June 2024Flash FloodRoxbury$30,000Street and road flooding in northern Dane County including some road damage. Some homes affected by flooding in Windsor, Medina, and Sun Prairie. A culvert failed in Windsor. Lowland flooding throughout the area.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$15,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$3,000A swath of trees down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$3,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$2,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts to around 56 knots (65 mph) toppled saeveral large trees and branches. A power-line was damaged.
August 2006LightningRoxbury$500Lightning struck a home's chimney. kocking off several bricks.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRoxbury-Large trees, up to 2 to 3 feet in diameter, were toppled.
August 2006HailRoxbury-no account filed

Every storm 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
Aldens Corners (historical)2.7 miles15
Marxville4.1 miles15
Lutheran Hill4.9 miles15
Martinsville6.6 miles15
Springfield Corners7.0 miles15
Mazomanie8.1 miles16
Black Earth8.6 miles15
Dane9.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1572693. 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.