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Glendale, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glendale town. It lies in ZIP code area 54638. It stands on Spring Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kendall East quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Glendale within Monroe County

On record in Glendale

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Glendale in 2018, burning under an acre 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/undetermined2

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
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Glendale: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Arthur Overgaard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arthur Overgaard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindGlendale$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and powerlines down in the town of Glendale.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGlendale$10,000Shingles were blown off the roof of a church south of Kendall.
July 2014HailGlendale-Quarter sized hail fell south of Kendall.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGlendale-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGlendale-no account filed
April 2004HailGlendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Kendall1.4 miles13
Hoffman Corners5.3 miles13
Clifton6.7 miles13
Wilton9.9 miles11
Oakdale12.4 miles13
Oil City13.0 miles11
Norwalk15.0 miles11
Tomah15.9 miles13

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 GlendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5568343The 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 1565569. 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.