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Sugar Bush, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Humboldt town. It lies in ZIP code area 54217. The Survey maps it on the New Franken quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Sugar Bush within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Bush between 2018 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
3 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0F19151
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2058
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1836311
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18057
22 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3719
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18019
9 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2090
2 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Bush: 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Luxemburg Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J Wessely Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Wessely Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Red River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scarboro Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Humboldt2.1 miles9
New Franken2.9 miles9
Coppens Corner3.0 miles9
Henrysville4.0 miles9
Poland4.5 miles9
Buckman6.0 miles9
Champion6.1 miles9
Bay Settlement6.6 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 Sugar BushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7634762The 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 1575013. 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.