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Ladoga, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Waupun town. It lies in ZIP code area 53963. It stands on Ladoga Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waupun North quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Ladoga within Fond du Lac County

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

22,949 words on this township

The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Waupun Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Waupun Town - 22,949 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Ladoga between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,616 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
4 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictNKING CHASE
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1807037
5 June 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBRADLEY2
4 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictSCHOENBERG
21 May 1997Debris and open burning30 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBRADLEY RD
3 April 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictMANTHEYW
24 April 2003Debris and open burning3.8 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictGATOR
20 April 2006Debris and open burning75 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugePINE WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladoga in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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
October 2006LightningLadoga$200,000Lightning struck a shed. The resultant fire buring the shed to the ground, and the contents were a total loss.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLadoga$50,000A barn collapsed while being occupied by 30 to 40 cattle. Some deceased cattle reported.
August 2018Tornado (EF1)Ladoga-Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went through rural areas northeast of Waupun and crossed Hwy 151. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Ladoga-Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went through mainly rural areas southeast of Brandon. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well.
August 2018HailLadoga-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLadoga-no account filed
June 1999FloodLadoga-no account filed
April 1999HailLadoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fond du Lac 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
Rogersville3.0 miles10
Oak Center5.7 miles10
Lamartine5.7 miles10
Brandon5.8 miles8
Rosendale6.1 miles9
Waupun6.7 miles10
Woodhull6.7 miles10
Alto7.1 miles8

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 LadogaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6469790The 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 1567713. 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.

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.