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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Campbellsport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Byron quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
10,440 words on this townshipThe 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 2018Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 62 |
| 6 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 43 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 40 |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 38 |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 37 |
| 18 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202108 |
| 31 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 16 |
| 29 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 13 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buechel Stone Center | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Eden Quarry & Mill | Calcium | Plant | ||
| Fond Du Lac Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Panetti Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Rodeinger Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Eden Stone Company Inc Eden Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Fon Du Lac Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Rademann Stone & Landscape Co | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Byron Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gobels Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2019 | Flash Flood | Marblehead | $10,000 | Multiple 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marblehead | $3,000 | A 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eden | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Hamilton (historical) | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Byron | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Fond du Lac | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Luco | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| South Byron | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Taycheedah | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Dotyville | 7.3 miles | 12 |
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 Marblehead | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714529 | The 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.




