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Token Creek, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Burke town. It lies in ZIP code area 53532. The Survey maps it on the De Forest quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Token Creek within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

23 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Token Creek between 2003 and 2020, burning about 570 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1183
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2021851
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1822998
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources955
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources965
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources228245
9 May 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources691
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources669

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Token Creek: 6 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Bird Street QuarryStoneUnknown
Madison Stone Co Inc Ghost Hill QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Paulson Schwenn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ziegler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Madison Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Madison Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norway Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Token Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Token Creek in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 11 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindToken Creek$15,000Numerous trees snapped about 10 to 15 feet above the ground. A felled tree onto a fiber glass roof shed, causing damage.
April 2026HailToken Creek-Public report of 1 inch diameter hail near Sun Prairie.
April 2026HailToken Creek-Public report of 1.25 inch diameter hail west of Sun Prairie.
April 2026HailToken Creek-Public report of 1 inch diameter hail near Sun Prairie.
May 2013HailToken Creek-The public reported hail measured to 1 inch in diameter in Token Creek.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Token Creek-This brief tornado lasted less than a minute, and resulted in only minor tree branch damage. The starting and ending locations, with respect to lat/long pairs of numbers, were 43.21357/-89.25815 and 43.21372/-89.25403, respectively. DI #28 (TS), DOD2. Maximum wind speed about 75 mph. Average path width was about 15 yards.
May 2025HailToken Creek-no account filed
June 2024HailToken Creek-no account filed
June 2024HailToken Creek-no account filed
October 2023HailToken Creek-no account filed
July 2022HailToken Creek-no account filed
March 2017HailToken Creek-no account filed
April 2014HailToken Creek-no account filed
August 1996Funnel CloudToken Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Raintree0.3 miles24
Wynbrooke0.7 miles24
Sunburst1.2 miles24
Foxmoor Hills1.4 miles24
Sherwood Glen2.0 miles24
Hoepkers Corners2.1 miles24
Lake Windsor2.9 miles24
Windsor3.0 miles24

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 Token CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7813542The 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 1575480. 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.