Waterbury, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Komensky town. It lies in ZIP code area 54466. The Survey maps it on the Hatfield NE quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Waterbury within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hatfield quadrangle1:48000
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Hatfield NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Waterbury between 1993 and 2015, burning about 67 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LUND RD. FIRE
17 July 2006	Natural	2.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 1999	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 June 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 June 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	KIRCH FIRE
20 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 54 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clay (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Pray	5.4 miles	12
Speck Oaks (historical)	6.0 miles	11
Hatfield	7.3 miles	11
Winnebago Mission	8.7 miles	13
Lapham Junction (historical)	8.8 miles	12
Spaulding	9.9 miles	12
Wrightsville (historical)	11.8 miles	13

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 Waterbury	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7973903	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 1577872. 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.