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Springfield, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Lyons town. It lies in ZIP code area 53176. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Springfield within Walworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Springfield grew from 158 to 168 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010158
2020168+10 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

10,179 words on this township

History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Lyons Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Ryan's Lake is on Sections 34 and 35, in the extreme southern portion, and small lakes or ponds are formed on Sections 22, 28 and 14. Bass and pickerel abound. Upon Section 30 are Sheridan Springs, which possess decided medicinal properties.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.

The next year Peter Campbell, the brother of Daniel, Seth Hamlin, and William F. Lyon, all emigrated from New York. The former located upon Section 10, and with Z. B. Burk, who came in 1842, purchased land which became the site of Lyonsdale. In the summer of 1844, the property was surveyed by Mark Morris, who had been laying out roads in that vicinity. When the railroad gave " The Dale" " the cold shoulder" and the settlement moved down to what is now Lyons, the village was platted by Mr. Burk and Mrs. Campbell, her husband having died.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.

A few miles west of Lyons on the Western Union line is the little village of Springfield, containing about one hundred and twenty-five people. It owes its existence to the building of that road, although a number of early settlers located near its site years previous.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.

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 Lyons Town - it names this place 12 more 12 times.

Fires near this place

21 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Springfield between 2012 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Natural1

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
8 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources281
15 July 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources297
3 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources222
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800429
2 May 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800394
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources128
30 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources175

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Springfield: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Devil's Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ryan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 WindSpringfield$12,000Multiple trees down and a tree down on a house in Springfield.

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Lyons2.9 miles19
Spring Prairie3.5 miles19
Lake Geneva3.6 miles19
Bowers3.8 miles19
Como4.2 miles19
Shady Side (historical)5.5 miles19
North Bloomfield5.5 miles18
Lake Como5.9 miles19

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 SpringfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580914The 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 1574721. 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.