Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Wisconsin Heights Battlefield is an area in Dane County, Wisconsin, where the penultimate battle of the 1832 Black Hawk War occurred. The conflict was fought between the Illinois and Michigan Territory militias and Sauk chief Black Hawk and his band of warriors, who were fleeing their homeland following the Fox Wars.”
Wikipedia article Wisconsin Heights Battlefield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2002 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. .4 mi SE of Jcto of Co. Rd. Y and WI 78., Sauk City, 53583
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. site
Town. Roxbury town
National Register reference number. 01001553 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Wisconsin Heights Battlefield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 430 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	55
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	2

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
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRUSSEL SMOKE
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FITZGERALD YARD
5 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SNUFFYS
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BREUNIG RD
15 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY Y FIRE
24 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	4.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	O COMPLEX #3

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wisconsin Heights Battlefield: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Marvin Beuthin Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Marxville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pulvermacher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin	1.1 miles	2008
Frey School	2.5 miles	2011
Adam Dunlap Farmstead	2.6 miles	2001
Kehl Winery	3.1 miles	1976
Frederick Schumann Farmstead	5.6 miles	1993
Friederich Kohlmann House	5.7 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001553 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.