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South Randolph, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Westford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53956. The Survey maps it on the Fox Lake quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

South Randolph within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

In the county-history sources

10,963 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Westford Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Westford Town - 10,963 words.

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of South Randolph between 1992 and 2020, burning about 487 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1

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
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDG DITCH GRASS #2
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDG DITCH GRASS #1
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDG BOBCAT
19 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY CD
14 June 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Randolph: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
J Madigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Randolph in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 tornado. 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
June 2008Tornado (EF1)South Randolph$200,000This Dodge County tornado started in Columbia County, about 6 miles southeast of Cambria, and crossed into Dodge County where Beaver Creek crosses the county line. It moved east-northeast to point where CTH FW makes its closest approach to Rakes Bay. It then dissipated over the middle of Rakes Bay. In Dodge County, a home was damaged, a barn was severely damaged, and the top part of a silo was knocked off. Many large trees were uprooted and branched broken off. Also, some corn and soybean fields were damaged. The starting and ending locations for the Dodge County segment, with respect to lat/long pairs of numbers, were 43.49473/-89.00625 and 43.50617/-88.96057. DI#1 (SBO), DOD5. Wind speeds estimated at 95 mph. Average path width of the Dodge County segment was about 50 yards.

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Lost Lake3.6 miles10
Fox Lake Junction5.3 miles8
Lyndon Dale5.8 miles8
Fox Lake6.2 miles8
Sunset Beach7.1 miles8
Delbern Acres7.6 miles8
South Beaver Dam7.7 miles10
Beaver Edge8.9 miles11

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 South RandolphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7568284The 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 1574480. 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.