BlockBefore

Fenwood, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fenwood Village. The Survey maps it on the Stratford quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

Fenwood within Marathon County

Population over time

2 figures

Fenwood fell from 152 to 141 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010152
2020141-11 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fenwood between 1998 and 2020, burning about 11 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources90220
27 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources082718B
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18009
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources50518
29 May 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51118
28 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42819
24 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42419

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Fenwood: 9 past producers, 9 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dead End Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
John Serve Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kratzer Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rock Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stratford Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bradley Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Edgar Granite Deposit #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Fairview Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hanneman Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hilgemann PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenwood in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Fenwood-A tornado formed at 7:47 pm CDT west of Fenwood in western Marathon County and continued northeast before dissipating at 7:50 pm CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 2.11 miles long, with a width of 60 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 87 mph.
July 2010Funnel CloudFenwood-A funnel cloud was spotted in southwest Marathon County.
April 2002HailFenwood-no account filed
July 1999LightningFenwood-no account filed
June 1997HailFenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Wien2.5 miles12
Bradley4.5 miles12
Weber5.0 miles12
Edgar5.0 miles7
Stratford5.6 miles12
Swan7.1 miles12
March Rapids7.3 miles12
Schnappsville7.4 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 FenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2262789The 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 1564913. 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.