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Edgewood, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Pewaukee City. It lies in ZIP code area 53072. The Survey maps it on the Hartland quadrangle.

Edgewood within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Pewaukee city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 - Pewaukee City

Fort Howard, Green Bay

Under the class of diseases of the respiratory organs, are comprised 384 catarrh, 6 pneumonia, 60 pleuritis, and 28 phthisis pulmonalis; under the class of digestive organs, 376 diarrhoea and dysentery, 184 colic and cholera, and 10 hepatitis; under the class of diseases of the brain and nervous system, 15 epilepsy, etc.

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In the county-history sources

38,760 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pewaukee City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pewaukee City - 38,760 words.

Fires near this place

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources381
1 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources222
1 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources242
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800812
28 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205
2 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800786

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edgewood: 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Waukesha Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Springdale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wcti PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2022FloodEdgewood$25,000Many roads and intersections with standing water were closed, including I-94 at Highway T. Both lanes of this portion of the interstate were closed for the morning into the early afternoon of September 12th. Numerous basements were also flooded. The Fox River at Waukesha also rose into minor flood stage. Portions of Frame Park become flooded from the river. About one half mile south of downtown Waukesha, water was covering much of the back yards of 6 or 7 homes in the Bethesda Court area of Waukesha due to the flooding river.
April 2026Flash FloodEdgewood$10,000Flash flooding of streets in many locations throughout Waukesha and extending into Brookfield. Farther to the south, Artesian Ave. was flooded and closed.
August 2015HailEdgewood-no account filed
August 2015HailEdgewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Pewaukee West1.8 miles22
Pewaukee2.5 miles22
Buena Vista2.7 miles22
Hartland3.6 miles22
Waukesha5.1 miles21
Bethesda5.2 miles23
Delafield5.4 miles23
Duplainville5.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1564446. 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.