Calvary, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Marshfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 53057. The Survey maps it on the Saint Cloud quadrangle.

Calvary within Fond du Lac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Kiel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

3,892 words on this township

The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Marshfield Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1847, Rev. Caspar Rehrl taught the first school at Mount Calvary, on Section 29. The same year, the Catholics built a church on the same section. The town now contains three Catholic Churches. The Pastors are Revs. P. Dominicus, P. Andrew and P. Mathew. It also contains six good schoolhouscs.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Marshfield Town - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Calvary between 2018 and 2019, burning about 31 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
24 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018057
18 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018040
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018037
5 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019011
30 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	38
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018036
22 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019016
29 January 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Calvary: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Elmer Fuhrmann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Calvary	1.4 miles	10
Malone	2.2 miles	12
Johnsburg	3.2 miles	12
Saint Cloud	4.4 miles	10
Marytown	5.1 miles	10
Silica	5.2 miles	12
Saint Peter	5.2 miles	12
Banner	5.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562525. 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.