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Saylesville, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Genesee town. It lies in ZIP code area 53189. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Genesee quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Saylesville within Waukesha County

On record in Saylesville

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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 Genesee town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 - Genesee Town

Town Of Mukwonaco

WILiIilAM ADDENBROORE, farmer. Sec. 9; P. 0. North Prairie; born 1832, in Staffordshire, Eng. ; is a son of Hy. and Harriett (Johnson) Addenbrook, who are now residents of Liverpool, Eng. ; Mr. A. studied in the schools of his native land, taking a medical course at the Birmingham Hospital; he practiced medicine on the ocean packet-ships, and in the American and English seaports, until 1852, when he came to Wisconsin and bought his present farm of 120 acres; was for nine years in the grain and mercantile business at North Prairie, selling his store and elevator, in 1875 ; has since devoted himself to his farm and apiary ; his first swarm was captured in the woods about twenty years ago ; was for a time in partnership with George Grimm, whose father, Adam G., of Jefferson, Wis., was the most successful apiarian on the continent, and first introduced the Italian bees ; the partnership was dissolved in 1879, Mr.

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In the county-history sources

50,052 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Genesee Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Genesee Town - 50,052 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Saylesville between 2008 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1

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
25 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources518
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources129
30 May 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19128
27 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202
23 April 2008Arson/incendiarism38 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources192
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2049
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources158

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Saylesville: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Genesee QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Perrens QuarryStoneUnknown
Bishop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Genesee Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hales Corners PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saylesville in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 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
November 2020Thunderstorm WindSaylesville$12,000Multiple trees and power lines down from Vernon to the southern portion of Waukesha.
April 2025HailSaylesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Genesee2.1 miles23
Bethesda2.6 miles23
Genesee Depot2.9 miles23
North Prairie4.6 miles23
Vernon4.8 miles23
Wales4.8 miles23
Oak Knoll5.7 miles24
Mukwonago5.8 miles24

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 SaylesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7429256The 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 1573762. 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.