South Madison, Wisconsin

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 within a mile 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Ernest Eggiman Houselisted 1994 · 0.6 miles away
• Brittingham Park Boathouselisted 1982 · 0.7 miles away
• American Tobacco Company Warehouses Complexlisted 2003 · 0.8 miles away
• Dowling Apartment Buildinglisted 2002 · 0.8 miles away
• Joseph J. Stoner Houselisted 1980 · 1.0 miles away
• West Madison Depot, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railwaylisted 1985 · 1.0 miles away
• Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouselisted 1986 · 1.0 miles away

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 Madison quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1904 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Madison quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Madison West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Madison West quadrangle1:24000
• 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Madison city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin : Including the Four Lake Country : to July, 1874, with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County and Its Towns, published 1874; Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns; Being a History and Guide to Places of Scenic Beauty and Historical Note .., published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of South Madison between 2007 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bowens Addition
• Greenbush Addition
• Madison
• Oakland Heights
• Preglers Addition
• Warrens Addition

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Madison: 3 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 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.

Every working recorded in Dane County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1842687. 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.