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Elmhurst, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rolling town. It lies in ZIP code area 54409. The Survey maps it on the Aniwa quadrangle.

Elmhurst within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

In the county-history sources

1,794 words on this township

History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rolling Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rolling Town - 1,794 words.

Fires near this place

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Elmhurst between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAST STRAW FIRE
5 August 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY Y
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #1
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade 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 Elmhurst: 13 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dale Keen Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mildred Walters Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snell Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bear Lake Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ehrenreich Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elbow Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elmhurst Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hess PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huggins Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huggins Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmhurst in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Aniwa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2015HailElmhurst-Quarter size hail fell near the intersection of Highway 47 and Highway 45.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Numerous large trees were snapped and uprooted about 4 miles south of Antigo near Highway D. Crops were also flattened by the strong winds.

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Antigo5.9 miles9
Phlox9.0 miles9
Neva Corners11.4 miles9
Deerbrook12.2 miles9
Polar12.8 miles8
Neva13.1 miles8
Bryant13.4 miles8
Ormsby14.1 miles11

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 ElmhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366761The 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 1564576. 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.