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Sandy Hook, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jamestown town. It lies in ZIP code area 53811. It stands on Kieler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kieler quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Sandy Hook within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Sandy Hook fell from 309 to 293 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
2010309
2020293-16 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

What happened here

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

From History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 - Jamestown Town

The Harney Murder

One of the most terrible crimes in the annals of the county was committed at Fairplay September 25,1865. Dr. Harney, an old resi¬ dent of the place, and a man of good character (except that he was subject to fits of almost insane anger), killed his step-daughter and seriously injured his wife. The daughter of Mrs.

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In the county-history sources

3,188 words on this township

History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jamestown Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jamestown Town - 3,188 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Hook between 1996 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20052
24 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresMcGregor District, Upper Mississippi River ComplexJDMARSH
17 March 2000Debris and open burning5.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources31938
6 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1/2 SOUTH OF HWY 3, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sandy Hook: 11 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, 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
Becker QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Fourteenth Street MineLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay LevelLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Fairplay Level MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Stewarts Cave MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Kilbourne MineLeadPast ProducerGalena
Stewarts Cave MineLeadPast ProducerGalena
Bob Richards QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Rutledge1.5 miles19
Kieler2.7 miles17
Fair Play2.7 miles17
Louisburg3.8 miles17
Sinsinawa4.0 miles17
Prairie Corners4.1 miles17
Jamestown4.5 miles17
Dickeyville5.9 miles17

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 Sandy HookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7417300The 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 1573720. 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.