Carlsville, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Egg Harbor town. It lies in ZIP code area 54235. The Survey maps it on the Institute quadrangle.
On record in Carlsville
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
LAKELAND (steam screw) Shipwrecklisted 2015 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1981 USGS Institute quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
5,021 words on this townshipHistory Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Egg Harbor Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In the meantime Egg Harbor had received an important addition to its population in the southern part of the town. These were the two brothers, Thomas and William Carmody. They came from Limerick, Ireland, and lived for a time in Pennsylvania. In 1857 they came to Door County. At that time entire townships lay vacant, waiting for their first settlers. Most of the best land near Sturgeon Bay was still open for pre-emption. Thomas and William Carmody, 'however, chose to go as far back into the timber as it was possible to get at that time and settled ten miles north of Sturgeon Bay. Here, far beyond any roads, trails or neighbors, they settled on some rather low lands just north of the present Carlsville which are even now considered of little value. Their purpose was not farming, however, but to get out cedar. Whether this was found profitable is not known. But here they lived year after year without schools, churches, markets or neighbors. It was in the heart of the wilderness. No daily or even weekly mail came to tell them of the world's progress. Beefsteak was not often on the bill of fare but bear meat took its place and the boys found wolf hunting better sport than pool playing.
Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Carlsville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 44 |
| 16 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 34 |
| 13 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1932 |
| 17 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 24 |
| 25 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 525 |
| 26 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 426 |
| 15 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 08 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carlsville: 2 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiehnau Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lautenbach Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Walker Road Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlsville in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Hail | Carlsville | - | Nickel size hail fell in Carlsville. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Carlsville | - | Nickel size hail fell at Carlsville. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Carlsville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlsville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Carlsville | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Carlsville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute | 4.8 miles | 7 | |
| Valmy | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Idlewild | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Egg Harbor | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Whitefish Bay | 7.1 miles | 7 | |
| Stevens Hill | 7.9 miles | 8 | |
| Jacksonport | 8.2 miles | 7 | |
| Sturgeon Bay | 8.4 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562721. 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.




