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Dundee, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Osceola town. It lies in ZIP code area 53010. It stands on Dundee Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Dundee within Fond du Lac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

4,232 words on this township

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

At Dundee, which was platted, recorded and named by E. M. Mcintosh, in February, 1864, is a good water-power. The first dam and saw-mill were built by Stephen Palmer and Mr. Mcintosh, in 1855. Soon after, the property fell into the hands of William and Leroy Palmer, who built the flouring-mill in 1858. It is now owned by F. HoUensteiner. The first Postmaster at Dundee was I. S. Sheldon. The office is now kept by Jacoib Arimond, though F. HoUensteiner is Postmaster. Dundee Hotel is kept by Mr. Brokmeyer, who started the cattle fair for Dundee in 1870. There are three churches at this village - a Catholic mission, supplied by- Father Michels, of New Cassel; a Reformed church, built in 1876, of which F. Hollensteiner is Treasurer and Rev. F. Maurer, Pastor, and a Lutheran church, built in 1878.

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 Osceola Town - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dundee between 2004 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1956
4 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201856
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201858
14 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201849
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201834
3 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020079
19 November 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3750

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dundee: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ebert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gelling County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dundee in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindDundee$15,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDundee$10,000Significant roof damage to a bar on the shore of Kettle Moraine Lake. Several boat docks were destroyed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDundee$1,000A tree down on power lines.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Dundee-Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went just east of Dundee Mountain and did some brief tree damage along Division Rd. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well.
July 2006Funnel CloudDundee-no account filed
July 2006HailDundee-no account filed
September 2006HailDundee-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudDundee-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chinatown2.0 miles13
New Prospect2.8 miles12
Armstrong4.1 miles13
Waucousta5.1 miles9
Graham Corners5.4 miles13
New Fane7.0 miles12
Campbellsport7.2 miles9
Dotyville8.4 miles12

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on DundeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5314795The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1564179. 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.