Glenbeulah, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Glenbeulah Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53023. The Survey maps it on the Elkhart Lake quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Glenbeulah within Sheboygan County

On record in Glenbeulah

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 1 record

Glenbeulah Mill/Grist Milllisted 1984

Population over time

2 figures

Glenbeulah fell from 463 to 451 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	463
2020	451	-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Kiel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Elkhart Lake quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Elkhart Lake quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

2,529 words on this township

History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 names this settlement in its chapter on Glenbeulah Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The land upon which Glenbeulah stands was chosen as farms by a Mr. Pool and H. P. Qark. As is the case with Greenbush, the Mullet river flows through a portion of the village. In 1857 settlers and building increased in the locality and that year Stephen and J. T. Dillingham, Edwin Slade and Joseph Swift, having bought land and the water power, put up flouring and sawmill, to which was added a store. In 1859 Edward Appleton and Joseph Swift as agents for a company that had been organized, platted the land into village lots. It was about this time that the Sheboygan & Mississippi railroad was being constructed and in the spring of i860 was completed to Glenbeulah, which for nine years thereafter was the road's western terminus. Here a postoffice was opened, February 7, i860, having been removed from Elkhart. The village was given its name by Mr. Appleton in remembrance of his mother, who first name was Beulah, to which he prefixed Glen.

Passage source: History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912.

In the Historical Review, of 1910, a journal devoted to the publication of local history, appeared the following lucid and comprehensive review of the salient features of Glenbeulah*s existence. The greater part of the data was taken by the Review from Miss Anna Titel's sketch, entitled "History of Glenbeulah :*'

Passage source: History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912.

Glenbeulah was one of the few places of the county favored with a railway in its early days. It was only three years after the village was started that the Sheboygan & Western railroad was completed as far as the village. March 20, i860, the first train entered Glenbeulah. A locomotive and three box cars on that date drew up to the depot, which had recently been built. The cars were loaded with wheat, and soon the first train pulled out for Sheboygan. Until 1867 Glenbeulah continued to be the westem terminus of the railroad. In that year the extension of the road westward was begun and the work in charge of S. M. Barrett was prosecuted until the road was completed to Fond du Lac. A fact which illustrates certain conditions regarding railroading in the county during those times is that wood was used for fuel in locomotives, and it is said of Jerry Donahue that he sawed with a hand saw all the wood required to run the engine between Sheboygan and Glenbeulah.

Passage source: History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912.

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 Glenbeulah Village - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

Fires near this place

13 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Glenbeulah between 2012 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	251
21 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	GLENBEULAH
10 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	214
16 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	156
15 June 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	193
12 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018009
12 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	131
1 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Glenbeulah: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Sheboygan County Agricultural Dept	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jens Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jones Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Northwest Area Operations	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
School Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenbeulah in 1 storm report in 1996: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenbeulah	$15,000	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Greenbush	2.4 miles	10
Elkhart Lake	2.9 miles	10
Hulls Crossing	3.6 miles	10
Plymouth	5.0 miles	9
New Paris	6.0 miles	9
Rhine	6.6 miles	10
Plymouth Country View Estates	6.8 miles	9
Johnsonville	7.3 miles	10

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 Glenbeulah	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2385812	The 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 1565565. 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.