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Linden, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Linden Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53553. It stands on Peddler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle. 504 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Linden within Iowa County

On record in Linden

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Linden fell from 549 to 504 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
2010549
2020504-45 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Linden between 2009 and 2020, burning about 105 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 burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 May 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5844
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBLOCKHOUSE
28 April 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42818
7 February 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020021
15 January 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources734

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 196 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 196 workings within 5 miles of Linden: 149 past producers, 40 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, 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
James QuarryStoneUnknown
Advance MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Linden MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Along East PecatCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Along East PecatCopperOccurrence
Ivey Construction Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kurth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Masters QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2000HailLinden$500,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLinden$70,000Eleven power poles snapped on highway 39 between Linden and county B. Numerous trees and branches down in the same area.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLinden$50,000The Iowa County Emergency manager reported damage from severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 knots (80 mph) in a 5-mile wide swath from south of Linden to south-southwest of Dodgeville. The damaging winds blew the roof off of a cattle barn south of Dodgeville and knocked over a grain bin. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down by the powerful winds.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLinden$30,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLinden-Emeregency management officials reported large trees uprooted by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in the VIllage of Linden.

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Edmund3.5 miles12
Cobb4.5 miles12
Mifflin5.3 miles13
Mineral Point6.4 miles14
Dodgeville8.1 miles14
Rewey8.3 miles14
Highland10.5 miles10
Jonesdale13.8 miles12

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 LindenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671389The 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 1568132. 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.