Edgar, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Edgar Village. It stands on Omar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgar quadrangle. 1,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.
On record in Edgar
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 1 record
Edgar Village Halllisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresEdgar fell from 1,479 to 1,439 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,479 | |
| 2020 | 1,439 | -40 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1902 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:48000
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:62500
- 1981 USGS Edgar quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
9,467 words on this townshipHistory of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Edgar Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The wish of the people of Edgar to secure some other industry which would use the fine hardwood timber for a higher price article culminated in an association of Edgar business men and fanners, notably August Baesemann and Gustav Herman of the latter class, to build a veneer factory in 1 91 2 which would work up the splendid hardwood close to the village, and for which the raw material would outlast generations. When the mill was nearly complete an ofifer was made to them to sell to Eamy Brothers, who agreed to convert the plant into a basket factory. As a new industry the offer was accepted and the plant sold to them, and the factory lost no time
Passage source: History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913.
The real estate man of this active village is C. C. Barrett, who has not only the sale of village lots, but also of farming and timber lands, and for years administered the law as justice of the peace. A. C. Wagner is the postmaster of Edgar.
Passage source: History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913.
Edgar has a telephone company, duly incorporated, with C. C. Barrett as president and William Bier as manager, with seventy-five telephones, which with their connections in Edgar, Cassel, and Emmet, gives its patrons one hundred and ninety telephones ; besides which it has connections with six other circuits in Marathon county. Its telephone station opens at 7 A. M. and closes at 10 P. M., and night calls are promptly answered.
Passage source: History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913.
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 Edgar Village - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Fires near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Edgar between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 90220 |
| 27 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 082718B |
| 15 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 61518 |
| 1 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 60118 |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 50518 |
| 28 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42819 |
| 24 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42419 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Edgar: 18 occurrences, 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baeseman Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Carl Lemke Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Knauf Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Marathon City Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Marathon City Gravel Deposit #5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Morgan Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rib Falls Gravel Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rib Falls Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgar in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | $440,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a metal outbuilding and downed several trees and power lines near Edgar. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees north of Edgar. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Edgar | - | Nickel size hail fell near Edgar. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near County Highways N and S, southwest of Marathon City. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Edgar | - | Nickel size hail fell on County Road H in Edgar. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Edgar | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wien | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Rib Falls | 4.4 miles | 7 | |
| Schnappsville | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Poniatowski | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Fenwood | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Marathon | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Wuertsburg | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Swan | 8.2 miles | 12 |
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 Edgar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2540991 | The 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 1564442. 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.





