BlockSilica, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Taycheedah town. It lies in ZIP code area 53049. The Survey maps it on the Saint Peter quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1910 USGS Fond du Lac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS St. Peter quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Saint Peter quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
6,126 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Taycheedah 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 Taycheedah Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Silica between 1993 and 2020, burning about 34 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018057 |
| 18 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018040 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018037 |
| 5 April 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 37 |
| 25 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018035 |
| 11 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 23 |
| 25 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2019021 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Silica: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silica Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Abler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| John L. Schmitz 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Peter | 1.0 miles | 12 | |
| Linden Beach | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bergen Beach | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Gladstone Beach | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Welling Beach | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Laudolff Beach | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Minawa Beach | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Winnebago Park | 2.5 miles | 12 |
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 Silica | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7514907 | 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 1574094. 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.