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Sandusky, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington town. It lies in ZIP code area 53937. The Survey maps it on the Lime Ridge quadrangle. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Sandusky within Sauk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Sandusky between 1992 and 2018, burning about 113 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning33
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Other causes3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
19 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEADOW RD
23 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEECHY PASTURE
17 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBBQ HOG
8 May 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCORNFIELD FIRE #2
5 May 2013Debris and open burning9.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNELSON HILLSIDE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sandusky: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Chester Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jo Templin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Keyesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wittman PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sauk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandusky in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSandusky$8,000Scattered trees and branches down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Sauk 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
Hill Point2.9 miles11
Loreta4.2 miles11
Lime Ridge5.0 miles11
Loganville6.9 miles11
Plain9.9 miles11
Ironton10.4 miles11
Leland11.6 miles19
Reedsburg12.3 miles11

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 SanduskyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7417002The 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 1577812. 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.