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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.

Edgar within Marathon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Edgar 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,479
20201,439-40 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

9,467 words on this township

History 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 2018

Regional 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/undetermined4
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
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources90220
27 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources082718B
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources61518
1 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60118
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources50518
28 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42819
24 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42419

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baeseman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Carl Lemke Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Knauf PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marathon City Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Marathon City Gravel Deposit #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Morgan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rib Falls Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rib Falls Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Thunderstorm WindEdgar$440,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgar$5,000Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a metal outbuilding and downed several trees and power lines near Edgar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEdgar-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees north of Edgar.
June 2017HailEdgar-Nickel size hail fell near Edgar.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEdgar-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near County Highways N and S, southwest of Marathon City.
August 2014HailEdgar-Nickel size hail fell on County Road H in Edgar.
May 2009HailEdgar-no account filed
June 2005Tornado (F0)Edgar-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudEdgar-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEdgar-no account filed
April 1994HailEdgar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Wien3.7 miles12
Rib Falls4.4 miles7
Schnappsville4.6 miles12
Poniatowski4.9 miles7
Fenwood5.0 miles12
Marathon6.5 miles7
Wuertsburg7.5 miles12
Swan8.2 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 EdgarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2540991The 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.