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Wingra Park, Wisconsin

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Madison City. It lies in ZIP code area 53711. It lies near Observatory Hill. The Survey maps it on the Madison West quadrangle.

Wingra Park within Dane County

On record in Wingra Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 29 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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.

What happened here

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

From A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin : Including the Four Lake Country : to July, 1874, with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County and Its Towns, published 1874 - Madison City

Chapter

Village and Town Elections 1846-49 - Water Power - Celebra¬ tion, July 4, 1846 - Public Cemetery - Dr. C. B. Chapman's and J. T. Clark's Reminiscences - Hope Lodge I. O. O. F. - Knapp's Account of Capitol Grounds - L. J. Farwell's Arrival - First Bell in Madison - Organization of Baptist Church 1847 - Trial of Gross for Murder - Growth of Village, 1848 - State Historical Society, 1849 - State University.

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In the county-history sources

304,850 words on this township

A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin : Including the Four Lake Country : to July, 1874, with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County and Its Towns, published 1874; Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns; Being a History and Guide to Places of Scenic Beauty and Historical Note .., published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Madison City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Madison City - 304,850 words.

Fires near this place

30 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wingra Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
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
9 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources242
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1818632
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019797
14 August 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018928
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2017339
2 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012493
15 June 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources305
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources304

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 Wingra Park: 5 producers, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kapel-Marquardt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fess QuarryStoneUnknown
John Hensen QuarryStoneUnknown
Blooming Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Engelhart Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Haen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norway Grove Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yanggen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Oakland Heights0.3 miles25
Bowens Addition0.6 miles25
Greenbush Addition0.7 miles25
Preglers Addition0.9 miles25
Madison1.1 miles25
Warrens Addition1.2 miles25
Pilgrim Village1.3 miles25
College Hills1.6 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1842767. 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.