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Excelsior, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 53518. It lies near McKinney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mount Zion quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Excelsior within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Excelsior between 1992 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
23 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGARNER LAKE FIRE
24 August 2003Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 Excelsior: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Dosch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Excelsior QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Excelsior in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2016Flash FloodExcelsior$20,000Runoff from heavy rain caused several streams to go out of their banks across western Richland County. The resulting flood waters caused some roads to be closed including State Highways 56 and 171 along with County Highway F near Excelsior and County Highways E and Q near Boaz.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindExcelsior$4,000Trees and power lines were blown down northwest of Port Andrews.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindExcelsior$3,000An amateur radio group reported a shed was removed from its foundation 2 miles southwest of Excelsior.
August 2013HailExcelsior-Hail ranging in size from dimes to quarters fell in Excelsior.
August 2013HailExcelsior-Quarter sized hail fell just northeast of Excelsior.

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Tavera2.4 miles10
Westport3.3 miles10
Sand Prairie3.3 miles10
Wild Rose3.5 miles10
Port Andrew4.4 miles10
Byrds Creek4.8 miles10
Five Points5.0 miles10
Basswood6.9 miles12

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 ExcelsiorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5419449The 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 1564780. 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.