BlockSaylesville, Wisconsin
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Rubicon town. It lies in ZIP code area 53078. The Survey maps it on the Hartford West quadrangle. It stands 925 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hartford West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
5,044 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Rubicon Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Rubicon Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
14 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Saylesville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 31 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 366 |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1831 |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 229 |
| 6 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 403 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 223 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1825 |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 216 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saylesville: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multhauf Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sanitary Transfer & Landfll Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rubicon | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Neosho | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Alderley | 5.7 miles | 22 | |
| Huilsburg | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Woodland | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Old Ashippun | 6.7 miles | 18 | |
| Ashippun | 7.3 miles | 18 | |
| Herman Center | 7.9 miles | 15 |
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 Saylesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7429253 | The 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 1577814. 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.