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Glen Haven, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Glen Haven town. It lies in ZIP code area 53810. It stands on Chase Creek. The Survey maps it on the Guttenberg quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Glen Haven within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Glen Haven fell from 73 to 64 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
201073
202064-9 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

3,453 words on this township

History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Glen Haven Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The history of this town is included in the history of Cassville up to the year 1859, when the latter town was divided into two parts on the township line, separating Townships 3 and 4. To the northern portion the name of Glen Haven was given. The earliest settler in the town of Glen Haven was A. D. Ramsey, one of the earliest of the little band of pioneers who opened up the hidden riches of Grant County. Some years later on he was joined in the present town limits by James C. Orr, who entered the farm, on which he afterward resided, in 1836 ; and Richard Ray, who came later. From the latter, the present site of the village took the name of " Ray's Landing," by which name it was known up to the birth of the new burg. One by one other settlers began to come in, until the settler's cabin peeped forth from its woody covert, or stood outlined against the prairie sky in every direction.

Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.

The town of Glen Haven was set off by the County Board in 1859, and the first town meeting was held in the "Yellow Schoolhouse," April 3, 1860. The first meeting of the Town Board was held at the same place, April 7, the same year. The following is a complete roster of the town officers from the town organization to the present date :

Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.

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 Glen Haven Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Glen Haven between 2009 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13A2019
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources403 WOODLAND DRIVE, GUTTENBERG, IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Glen Haven: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Blum QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pattison Sand Co.Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand, SilicaProducerSand
Essman Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holmes MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Kann MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Guttenberg MinesLeadPast Producer
Guttenberg SubdistrictLeadPast ProducerMISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD-ZINC
Kann MineLeadPast ProducerGalena

Every working recorded in Grant 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
North Andover5.6 miles16
Bagley5.7 miles12
Diamond Grove8.4 miles16
Brodtville8.8 miles12
Bloomington8.8 miles16
Cassville8.8 miles16
Wyalusing8.9 miles14
Patch Grove9.4 miles16

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 Glen HavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567801The 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 1565560. 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.