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Hebron, Wisconsin

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hebron town. It lies in ZIP code area 53538. The Survey maps it on the Rome quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hebron within Jefferson County

On record in Hebron

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hebron fell from 224 to 209 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
2010224
2020209-15 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 31 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

4,609 words on this township

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Hebron Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In pursuance of an act of the Legislature of 1847, Hebron was organized, taking the south half of Township No. 6 north, of Range 15 east, and all north of Bark River and Scup' ernong Creek, of Township 5 north, of Range 15 east. The north half of Township No. ( (Tunbridge). was attached to Jefferson, and the name Tunbridge dropped. The town of Cold Spring, was to include all of Township 5, Range 1 5 east, south of Bark Biver, and the town name of Bark River dropped. The first town meeting was held April 7, 1847, and the followingnamed persons were elected to fill the respective offices :

Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.

The Hebron Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., was organized November 24, 1876, by Grand Worth Master J. W. Ostrander. The cliarter members were Lorenzo Dow Abbey, Robert Krause Daniel P. Elmendorf, Milton Henry Blakely, George W. Case and Myron Ilollis. The follow have been Noble Grands : L. D. Abbey, William Henry Miner, James B. Miner, Charles C Brown, Barber W. Miner, Silas G. Westphall and J. Osborn Stevens. The total membership i fifty-two. Twelve have withdra\tn and organized a Lodge at the village of Rome.

Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.

The Jefferson County Agricultural Society. - Tlie Jefferson County Agricultural Societ was organized in Hebron, in 18.52. The first officers of the Society were elected here and thei names will be found in the Society's history, in another part of this work.

Passage source: The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879.

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 Hebron Town - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

Fires near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hebron between 2014 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
12 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources244
31 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources87
30 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH PEAT FIRE
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources144
22 March 2016Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH FIRE
22 November 2020Arson/incendiarism3.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKOCH RD
22 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2064
17 November 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH PEAT FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hebron: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Schuth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hebron in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 6 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
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHebron$100,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHebron$30,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHebron$3,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHebron$500A tree down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHebron$300no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHebron-Powerful thunderstorm winds pushed over several large trees.
March 2004HailHebron-no account filed
May 2000HailHebron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Slabtown4.2 miles31
Cold Spring4.9 miles18
Rome5.0 miles31
Oak Hill5.7 miles32
Helenville6.0 miles18
Palmyra6.5 miles32
Heath Mills7.5 miles32
Fort Atkinson7.7 miles18

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 HebronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5696008The 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 1566257. 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.