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Eland, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Eland Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54427. It stands on Railroad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wittenberg quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.

Eland within Shawano County

Population over time

4 figures

Eland fell from 247 to 199 between 1990 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
1990247
2000251+4 (+2%)
2010202-49 (-20%)
2020199-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Eland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIREWORKS PARTY
24 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHALF MILE
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKILDEER FIRE
5 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Eland: 11 occurrences, 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Anton Buss Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bernard Fuller Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Birnamwood Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Birnamwood Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Birnamwood Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brinkman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dobratz Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eland Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elm Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eland in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEland-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted trees near Eland. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2012HailEland-Half dollar size hail fell at Eland.
June 2012Funnel CloudEland-A funnel cloud was spotted at Eland.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Paac Ciinak3.6 miles7
Wittenberg3.8 miles7
Birnamwood4.3 miles7
Shepley6.0 miles7
Whitcomb7.9 miles7
Aniwa9.5 miles8
Five Corners10.0 miles7
Regina10.4 miles7

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 ElandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2729960The 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 1564486. 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.