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Lebanon, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lebanon town. It lies in ZIP code area 53098. The Survey maps it on the Clyman quadrangle. 187 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Lebanon within Dodge County

Population over time

2 figures

Lebanon fell from 204 to 187 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
2010204
2020187-17 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2,507 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Lebanon Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wilhclmina, Herman, Erdman, Michael, Sophia and John (deceased;. On the 17th of November, 1859, he married Miss Mary L. Dammbaeh ; they have nine ceildrcn - Louisa, Albert, Adolph, Anna, Oswald, Eva, Paulina, Agnes and Angela ; Wilhelmina is married and lives in Nort'ulk, Neb. ; Herman is a photographer in Marshfield, VVis. ; Erdman is Pastor of Lutheran congregations in Tomah and llidgeville, living at Ridgeville, Wis.; Micliael is Pastor of the Lutheran flock at Norfolk, Neb.; Sophia is married and lives in Tomah ; Albert and x\dolph are students at the Northwestern Univcr.sity, Watertown, and the other children are on the farm of eighty-five acres. Sec. 19, where Mr. Pankow built a pleasant home in 1858; he still owns the old Government claim on Sugar Island.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.

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 Lebanon Town - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon between 2018 and 2019, burning about 10 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
18 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
12 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1923
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
7 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
7 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge 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 Lebanon: 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
Allen Rudolph PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lebanon in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2008Flash FloodLebanon$1,200,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding over parts of southeastern Dodge County. Water depths on road surfaces reached 3 feet or more and there were gravel washouts. Some farm fields remained flooded into early July. The breakdown for residential home losses was: 10 with minor damage (total of $1 million). The breakdown for business losses was: 1 with minor damage (total of $100 thousand). Crop losses were estimated at 5 million. Public sector damage was about $100 thousand. There were a couple roads that sustained damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLebanon$3,000Multiple trees down as large at 8 inches in diameter.
April 2024FloodLebanon$1,000Water over the north end of Monroe Rd. and Upham Rd.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLebanon$500Two young trees were snapped at their base.
May 2012HailLebanon-no account filed
June 2011HailLebanon-no account filed
August 1995HailLebanon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Old Lebanon2.0 miles19
Sugar Island3.2 miles18
Old Ashippun6.0 miles18
Clyman6.3 miles9
Hustisford6.4 miles9
Ashippun6.6 miles18
Clyman Junction6.8 miles9
Neosho6.9 miles9

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 LebanonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6511053The 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 1567918. 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.