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Erdman, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sheboygan town. It lies in ZIP code area 53083. The Survey maps it on the Howards Grove quadrangle.

Erdman within Sheboygan 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.

In the county-history sources

16,534 words on this township

History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sheboygan Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sheboygan Town - 16,534 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Erdman between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3762
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3092
17 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2611
12 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3283
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1310
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1713
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1371
23 April 2018Smoking2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1292

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erdman in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindErdman$60,000A swath of large trees snapped or uprooted. Some trees fallen on houses and cars. Many power lines down.
September 2021HailErdman-no account filed
April 2014HailErdman-no account filed
April 2014HailErdman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Mosel1.5 miles9
Sheboygan3.6 miles9
Kohler3.7 miles10
Haven4.1 miles9
Howards Grove4.4 miles9
Sheboygan Falls5.0 miles10
Indian Meadows5.2 miles9
Ourtown7.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1564684. 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.