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Englewood, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Fountain Prairie town. It lies in ZIP code area 53932. The Survey maps it on the Fall River quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Englewood within Columbia County

On record in Englewood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

In the county-history sources

166,159 words on this township

The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement .., published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fountain Prairie Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fountain Prairie Town - 166,159 words.

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Englewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 492 acres in total. None 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 burning45
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
12 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDG DITCH GRASS #2
4 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDG DITCH GRASS #1
17 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLEINKE STRAW FIRE
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDG BOBCAT
19 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Englewood: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Cass QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cass QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Fall River3.4 miles9
Doylestown4.0 miles9
Otsego5.2 miles9
Columbus7.0 miles9
Cambria8.0 miles10
Randolph8.4 miles10
Rio8.8 miles9
Friesland11.0 miles10

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 EnglewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5378115The 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 1842955. 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.