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Edwards, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Herman town. It lies in ZIP code area 53015. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland West quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Edwards within Sheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Edwards between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2939
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources80
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3092
17 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2611
1 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2364
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1076
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19
12 December 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edwards: 1 producer. 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
Schwartz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwards in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2015: 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindEdwards$10,000Numerous trees down and some powerlines down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindEdwards$1,000Straight line winds blew over a Gazebo and a fence was blown over a house.

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Ada3.5 miles9
Howards Grove3.8 miles9
Haven5.2 miles9
Franklin5.2 miles10
Rhine6.9 miles10
Mosel7.4 miles9
Johnsonville7.5 miles10
Erdman7.8 miles9

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 EdwardsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5346082The 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 2741525. 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.