BlockWilmoore Heights, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ripon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54971. The Survey maps it on the Rush Lake quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1916 USGS Ripon quadrangle1:48000
- 1918 USGS Ripon quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Ripon quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Rush Lake quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Ripon town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Scraps Of War History
The first man to shed Wisconsin blood on a Southern battlefield in the rebellion, was Lieut. William A. Matthews, of Company G, First Wisconsin Volunteers, who was severely wounded at the battle of Falling Waters, in July, 1861, in Virginia. He enlisted at Fond du Lac, his home. The last Wisconsin blood shed was at the capture of Jeff Davis, in Irwin County, Ga., May 10, 1865, when several men were wounded by volleys fired by a detachment of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry upon a detachment of the First Wisconsin Cavalry.
In the county-history sources
38,693 words on this townshipThe History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880; Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Ripon Town covers the township.
Read the chapter on Ripon Town - 38,693 words.
Fires near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wilmoore Heights between 1993 and 2018, burning about 318 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | GREEN LAKE COUNTY F |
| 7 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | UIHLEIN |
| 9 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DODGEVILLE CO-OP 3 |
| 9 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | VEG FIRE |
| 4 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | COOP FIRE |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 Wilmoore Heights: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nellis Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| R & R Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ripon | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Arcade Acres | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rosendale Center | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| West Rosendale | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Rosendale | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Fairwater | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Brandon | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Eldorado | 10.8 miles | 10 |
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 Wilmoore Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8022810 | 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 1576804. 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.