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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.

Carlsville within Door County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

In the county-history sources

5,021 words on this township

History 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.

Read the whole chapter on Egg Harbor Town.

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources44
16 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources34
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1932
17 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources525
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources426
15 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources08

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kiehnau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lautenbach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Walker Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023HailCarlsville-Nickel size hail fell in Carlsville.
May 2011HailCarlsville-Nickel size hail fell at Carlsville.
June 2000HailCarlsville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCarlsville-no account filed
July 1999HailCarlsville-no account filed
September 1996HailCarlsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Institute4.8 miles7
Valmy4.9 miles7
Idlewild6.5 miles7
Egg Harbor6.9 miles8
Whitefish Bay7.1 miles7
Stevens Hill7.9 miles8
Jacksonport8.2 miles7
Sturgeon Bay8.4 miles7

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.