The Courtyards, Wisconsin

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.

• 1901 USGS The Dells quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Reedsburg East quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Wisconsin Dells SW quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Reedsburg city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Outline Sketches of Sauk County; Including Its History, from the First Marks of Man's Hand ... and Its Topography, Both Written and Illustrated, published 1861; The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, published 1880; A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1918 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of The Courtyards between 1992 and 2020, burning about 280 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Baders Villa Estates
• Reedsburg
• Rock Springs
• Dellwood
• LaRue
• North Freedom

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of The Courtyards: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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.

Every working recorded in Sauk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2612461. 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.