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Elderon, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elderon town. The Survey maps it on the Wittenberg quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Elderon within Marathon County

Population over time

2 figures

Elderon fell from 179 to 161 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
2010179
2020161-18 (-10%)

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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Elderon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 use23
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking4
Other causes3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
6 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIREWORKS PARTY
24 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHALF MILE
22 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 1997Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
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
30 June 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 153

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Elderon: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Comet Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Comet Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elderon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elm Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
John Bushman Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
John Bushman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kingbird Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lilly Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Mcdevitt Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shawano County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elderon in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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
July 1994Tornado (F1)Elderon$50,000no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F0)Elderon$1,000no account filed
July 2004HailElderon-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
Ingersoll4.8 miles9
Galloway5.0 miles7
Pike Lake6.2 miles9
Holt6.3 miles7
Norrie7.0 miles9
Bevent7.7 miles9
Hatley8.7 miles9
Little Eau Claire10.7 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 ElderonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671441The 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 1564498. 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.