Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Dodge County

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 8 records

• Dodge County Historical Museumlisted 1981
• Hotel Rogerslisted 1989
• Paramount Knitting Company Milllisted 2011
• St. Mark's Episcopal Churchlisted 1980
• Swan House and Vita Spring Pavilionlisted 1980
• Weyenberg Shoe Factorylisted 2000
• Williams Free Librarylisted 1974
• Fountain Innlisted 2009

Beaver Dam grew from 16,214 to 16,708 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1955 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Beaver Dam NE quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Oconomowoc quadrangle1:100000

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Beaver Dam City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Beaver Edge
• South Beaver Dam
• Leipsig
• Buckhorn Corner
• North Lowell
• Oak Grove

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Dam: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Dam in 77 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 38 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 4 funnel cloud, 2 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Dodge County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561457. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.