Elmore, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ashford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53010. The Survey maps it on the Campbellsport quadrangle. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Elmore within Fond du Lac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Campbellsport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Campbellsport quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

7,039 words on this township

The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Ashford Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Northwestern Union, or Air Line Railroad crosses the northeastern part of this town, entering it at the southeast corner of Section 13, and, after a northwesterly course of over three miles, leaves it on the north line of Section 2, crossing into the town of Eden, on its way to the city of Fond du Lac, ten miles distant.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

The first organization of Methodists was in December, 1862, and meetings were held in the Carter Schoolhouse. The organizers were, some of them, J. N. McSchooler and wife, L. Norton and wife, William L. Andrews and wife, George Mosher and wife and Leonard Goodax. Regular services were not held until the present edifice was erected in 1875, at a cost of $3,200. The members number'over forty. The building committee was composed of J. N. McSchooler, W. Saeman and William S. Hendricks. The first organization was by Rev. McFarland. and the first Trustees, in 1862, were: J. N. McSchooler, President; W. L. Andrews, William Dusenbury, Stuart Campbell, W. S. Hendricks and M. Saeman. Mr. McSchooler is still President, the other Trustees being John Huges, F. A. Rosco, J. H. Denniston, W. L. Andrews, S. Campbell and W. S. Hendricks. A Union Sabbath School, begun in 1862, at the Carter Schoolhouse, is still in existence.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

WILLIAM HAlTSMABf, M. D., Elmore; bom in Buffklo, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1854; he was educated in the public .schools of St. Louis: began the study of medicine, 1869, with Dr. N. Senn, of Ashford ; entering the Chicago Medical College, he graduated as physician and surgeon March 10, 1874, and has since been in active practice in Elmore, where he has a most pleasant home, earned by his most successful practice during this time ; though young, the Doctor is now President of the Rock River Medical Society, which he joined in March, 1874, and has been an active member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society since June. 1878 ; the Doctor is also a member of Kewaskum Lodge, No. 101, I. 0. O. F., and, with his wife, of the Reformed Church of Elmore; married Miss Charlotte Fleischman, of Ashford, in August, 1874 ; they have three children - ^Edward N., Elizabeth A. and Wm. P. Republican.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Ashford Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Elmore between 2018 and 2020, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019056
2 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019057
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201859
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201865
15 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2020046
3 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201827
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201835
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201837

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmore in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 1 lightning, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2006	Lightning	Elmore	$80,000	Lightning struck a rural home and the resultant fire burned the house to the ground.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmore	$30,000	Numerous trees down in Elmore and Campbellsport. Minor damage to homes in Elmore.

Every storm recorded in Fond du Lac 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Campbellsport	2.0 miles	9
Ashford	3.7 miles	9
Saint Kilian	3.8 miles	9
Waucousta	5.8 miles	9
New Fane	6.4 miles	12
New Prospect	7.2 miles	12
Eden	8.7 miles	9
Dundee	9.2 miles	13

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 Elmore	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366874	The 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 1564579. 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.

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.