BlockSugar Island, Wisconsin
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lebanon town. It lies in ZIP code area 53098. It stands on Baker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ixonia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1892 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Ixonia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,507 words on this townshipThe History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Lebanon Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Wilhclmina, Herman, Erdman, Michael, Sophia and John (deceased;. On the 17th of November, 1859, he married Miss Mary L. Dammbaeh ; they have nine ceildrcn - Louisa, Albert, Adolph, Anna, Oswald, Eva, Paulina, Agnes and Angela ; Wilhelmina is married and lives in Nort'ulk, Neb. ; Herman is a photographer in Marshfield, VVis. ; Erdman is Pastor of Lutheran congregations in Tomah and llidgeville, living at Ridgeville, Wis.; Micliael is Pastor of the Lutheran flock at Norfolk, Neb.; Sophia is married and lives in Tomah ; Albert and x\dolph are students at the Northwestern Univcr.sity, Watertown, and the other children are on the farm of eighty-five acres. Sec. 19, where Mr. Pankow built a pleasant home in 1858; he still owns the old Government claim on Sugar Island.
Passage source: 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.
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 Lebanon Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
16 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Island between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 18 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 29 |
| 12 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1923 |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1831 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1817 |
| 7 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 13 |
| 7 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 11 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Island: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fredericks Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oakfield Brick Pit | Clay | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Lebanon | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Old Ashippun | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lebanon | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Ashippun | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Neosho | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Alderley | 6.9 miles | 22 | |
| Hustisford | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Saylesville | 9.0 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1575026. 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.