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Ellenboro, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ellenboro town. It lies in ZIP code area 53813. It stands on Willow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ellenboro quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Ellenboro within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ellenboro in 2018, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018
25 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2118
23 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1918
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018060
24 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018174

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Ellenboro: 7 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Calcium. 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
Hodgson QuarryCalciumProducer
Red Dog MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Western Star MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Whig and Edgerton MinesZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Bell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brogley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Edgerton MineZincPast Producer
Ellenboro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ellenboro Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hodgeson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellenboro in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEllenboro$59,000Apparent downburst winds caused fairly widespread damage to trees, power lines, out buildings and sheds in a six to seven mile path northwest of Platteville. Several farm buildings were destroyed or flattened. A spotter measured wind gusts of 68 mph near Union.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEllenboro$30,000A barn was blown down west of Platteville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEllenboro$20,000A barn along with numerous trees were blown down near Ellenboro.
May 2000HailEllenboro$15,000no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodEllenboro$10,000High water flooded sections of Highway 81 between Lancaster and Platteville.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEllenboro$500Debris was blown across a highway southeast of Lancaster.
April 2009Funnel CloudEllenboro-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud one mile west of Ellenboro.
May 2008HailEllenboro-The emergency manager reported nickel size hail south of Ellenboro.
May 2019HailEllenboro-no account filed
June 2014HailEllenboro-no account filed
July 2006HailEllenboro-no account filed
March 2005HailEllenboro-no account filed
September 2000HailEllenboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Rockville5.3 miles16
Union5.7 miles16
Buena Vista6.2 miles16
British Hollow6.6 miles16
Cornelia6.8 miles17
Lancaster6.8 miles15
Tennyson7.5 miles16
Platteville7.9 miles13

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 EllenboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5365089The 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 1564536. 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.