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Saxon, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Saxon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54559. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saxon quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Saxon within Iron County

Population over time

2 figures

Saxon fell from 90 to 75 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
201090
202075-15 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Saxon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSAND 2
17 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSAND 1
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 2 P

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Saxon: 8 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Cedar Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lawrence Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lawrence Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lower Rd Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lower Road Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Montreal River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Potato River Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Potato River Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upper Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Vaughn Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saxon in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindSaxon-Trees were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
August 2018HailSaxon-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSaxon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Cedar4.5 miles9
Gurney5.2 miles9
Kimball5.8 miles11
Iron Belt8.0 miles11
Hoyt8.3 miles11
Upson8.6 miles11
Pence9.3 miles11
Montreal10.0 miles14

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 SaxonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7428825The 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 1573758. 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.