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Black Earth is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,493 at the 2020 census . The village is located within the Town of Black Earth .
Black Earth Rettenmund Prairie is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-designated State Natural Area featuring one of the few remaining dry-mesic prairies in Wisconsin, situated on a low Driftless Area knob and ridge. Despite the prairie's relatively small size, 130 native prairie plant species have been documented on the site.
The Town of Black Earth was formed out of the Town of Springfield on August 2, 1848, as Farmersville.The town was renamed Black Earth on February 1, 1851. Much of the territory of the current towns of Berry and Mazomanie was originally part of Farmersville/Black Earth.
Location and access. Pleasant Valley Conservancy is located approximately 4 miles south of Black Earth, Wisconsin.Trails wind through the site. Description. Prairie remnants are present on the south-facing ridge and have recovered from previous agricultural use due to intensive management that began in 1995.
Wisconsin is bordered by Lake Superior in the north and Lake Michigan in the east. [36] The state has over 15,000 named lakes, totaling about 1 million acres (4,000 km 2). Within Wisconsin, Lakes Superior and Michigan total 6.4 million acres (26,000 km 2). [37] Along the two great lakes, Wisconsin has over 500 miles (800 km) of shoreline. [38]
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance. There are 45 National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin.
The National Natural Landmarks (NNLs) in Wisconsin include 18 of the almost 600 such landmarks in the United States. [1] They cover areas of geological, biological and historical importance, and include dune and swales, swamps, bogs, and virgin forests. [1] Several of the sites provide habitat for rare or endangered plant and animal species.
Each differs from the others in roughness or smoothness of topography, infertility or sterility of soil, in climate, in adaptation to occupation by wild plants (including forests), by cultivated plants (including crops and orchards), by animals, and by man, as well as in the extent to which men have developed such resources during the march of ...