BlockStebbinsville, Wisconsin
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Porter town. It lies in ZIP code area 53534. It stands on Badfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooksville quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.
On record in Stebbinsville
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Gilley-tofsland Octagonal Barnlisted 1979 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1890 USGS Stoughton quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Cooksville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Stoughton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,525 words on this townshipThe History of Rock County, Wisconsin; Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Porter Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
HARRISON STEBBINS, farmer, Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Cooksville ; born in Vermont June 8, 1820 ; came to Wisomsin in 1841 ; located in Janesville, Rock Co., and taught in the first school in that tity ; he was also a surveyor; in 1844, he moved to Porter Township and engaged in farming and survey r ing ; in 1866, he built the grist-mill on Catfish River, still owned and operated by him. He was County Surveyor for three terms of two years each ; he assisted in organizing Rock County into school districts, In 1847, was elected Superintendent of Schools ; he was elected to the Legislature about 1850. Married, in Montpelier, Vt., June 15, 1841, Miss Mary A. Bassett, a native of that State ; he has three children. He is Postmaster at Stebbinsville.
Passage source: The History of Rock County, Wisconsin; Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., published 1879.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Stebbinsville between 2016 and 2020, burning about 20 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804253 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 136 |
| 29 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | GRASS LAKE WF |
| 21 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 83 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201206 |
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 Stebbinsville: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock County Highway Department | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fosdahl Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stearns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Cooksville | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Indianford | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Edgerton | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Hans Addition | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Fellows (historical) | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Union | 7.0 miles | 19 | |
| Evansville | 8.0 miles | 19 |
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 Stebbinsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7605554 | 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 1577837. 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.