Sherwood Forest Heights, Wisconsin

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bristol town. It lies in ZIP code area 53590. The Survey maps it on the Sun Prairie quadrangle.

Sherwood Forest Heights within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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.

1890 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1896 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1905 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Sun Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Forest Heights between 1994 and 2020, burning about 61 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	955
10 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	965
25 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	228245
2 June 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	691
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	669
22 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	608
21 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	759

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 Sherwood Forest Heights: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bird Street Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Paulson Schwenn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Norway Grove Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Token Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pebble Valley	0.7 miles	26
Hilton Estates	1.1 miles	26
Prairie View Heights	1.7 miles	26
North Bristol	2.7 miles	9
Foxmoor Hills	3.3 miles	24
Wynbrooke	3.4 miles	24
Bakers Corners (historical)	3.6 miles	9
Raintree	3.6 miles	24

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.

Wikidata item Q122588379

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 1842679. 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.