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Marblehead, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Eden town. It lies in ZIP code area 53019. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Marblehead within Fond du Lac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10,440 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 Eden Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Eden Town - 10,440 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Marblehead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 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/undetermined5

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
11 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources62
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources43
30 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources40
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources38
29 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources37
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202108
31 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources16
29 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Marblehead: 8 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Buechel Stone CenterStone, DimensionProducer
Eden Quarry & MillCalciumPlant
Fond Du Lac Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Panetti Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Rodeinger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eden Stone Company Inc Eden QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Fon Du Lac QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Rademann Stone & Landscape CoLimestone, DimensionProducer
Byron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gobels PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marblehead in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2019Flash FloodMarblehead$10,000Multiple reports of flooded roads in Fond du Lac including a foot of standing water across portions of I-41 and highway 151. Southbound lanes of I-41 were closed at Hickory St. due to the flooding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMarblehead$3,000A 250 pound canoe was blown from a deck by the lake into the hood of a car. A couple lighter weight kayaks were also thrown. Tree limbs landed on a split rail fence; thereby knocking most of it down with some cross-members broken. The metal frame of a shore station was bent.

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
Eden1.4 miles9
Hamilton (historical)4.0 miles9
Byron5.1 miles9
Fond du Lac5.8 miles13
Luco7.0 miles13
South Byron7.1 miles9
Taycheedah7.3 miles13
Dotyville7.3 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 MarbleheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714529The 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 1569019. 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.