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Greenbush, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Greenbush town. It lies in ZIP code area 53023. The Survey maps it on the Elkhart Lake quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Greenbush within Sheboygan County

On record in Greenbush

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Greenbush fell from 162 to 159 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
2010162
2020159-3 (-2%)

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.

In the county-history sources

64 words on this township

History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Greenbush Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Greenbush Town - 64 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Greenbush between 2012 and 2020, burning about 57 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2

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
4 August 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources251
21 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGLENBEULAH
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources214
12 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018009
12 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources131
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources106
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019016
19 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources122

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 Greenbush: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sheboygan County Agricultural DeptStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crystal Lake Crushed Stone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jones PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Northwest Area OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schroeder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenbush in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$400,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$300,000A line of severe storms moved west to east across Sheboygan County and generated widespread powerful winds that gusted to an estimated 61 to 70 knots (70 to 80 mph). In addition, a tornado spun up north of Sheboygan Falls at 1437 CST - see the tornado event write-up for deatils. The ASOS unit at the Sheboygan County Airport measured a gust of 53 knots (61 mph). Thousands of trees were snapped or toppled, and many power-lines were brought down by tree debris, mostly across the northern part of the county. An 81-year-old women in Plymouth was injured when the winds pushed a door of a store into her. She broke her arm and was hospitalized. Elsewhere in Plymouth, 2 vehicles were damaged by tree debris. North of Plymouth, 2 cabins at a camp ground were destroyed by toppled trees, and 3 other camp buldings were damaged. In Sheboygan Falls, at least 12 homes were damaged. In Kohler, a vehicle was crushed by a toppled tree. City and county 911 Communications Centers received thousands of calls within a 5 hour period. At least 14,000 homes in Sheboygan County lost electrical power.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$20,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$10,000Branches and trees down in the northern portion of the county including Plymouth.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$2,000Trees down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenbush$1,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-Multiple pines knocked down and damage to tree branches in the Greenbush area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGreenbush-Law enforcement officials reported trees blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 52 knots (60 mph).
July 2020HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 2020HailGreenbush-no account filed
April 2008HailGreenbush-no account filed
April 2002HailGreenbush-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudGreenbush-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glenbeulah2.4 miles10
Hulls Crossing3.1 miles10
Elkhart Lake5.3 miles10
Plymouth6.0 miles9
New Paris6.7 miles9
Parnell7.6 miles12
Plymouth Country View Estates7.9 miles9
Rhine9.0 miles10

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 GreenbushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5603781The 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 1565833. 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.