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Marshfield, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marshfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 54449. The Survey maps it on the Marshfield quadrangle. 18,929 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.

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Marshfield within Wood County

On record in Marshfield

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 12 of 15 shown

Every listing in Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Marshfield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources164
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005074
25 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004849
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004798
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004792
29 December 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012241
6 November 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2011289

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Marshfield: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Stadt Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ross Blott Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Scheuer Creek Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

54 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshfield in 54 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 3 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshfield$50,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMarshfield$20,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshfield$10,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMarshfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds snapped power poles and caused some damage to nearby businesses in Marshfield.
September 1997Heavy RainMarshfield$5,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMarshfield$3,000no account filed
August 1997LightningMarshfield$1,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMarshfield$1,000no account filed
April 2026Flash FloodMarshfield-Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches in a short time caused cars to get stuck in water on several streets in Marshfield due to flash flooding.
April 2026HailMarshfield-Quarter size hail fell in Marshfield.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Marshfield. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar.
August 2024Flash FloodMarshfield-Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Highway 13 and County V in northwestern Wood County.
October 2023HailMarshfield-Hail slightly larger than lime size (2.25 inches) fell in Marshfield.
October 2023HailMarshfield-Quarter size hail fell in Marshfield.
October 2023HailMarshfield-Ping pong size hail fell in Marshfield.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured at Marshfield Municipal Airport.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Marshfield.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 63 mph at the Marshfield airport.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-A thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph was measured at the Marshfield airport.
October 2019HailMarshfield-Quarter size hail fell in Marshfield.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines throughout Wood County.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Marshfield.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and branches in Marshfield.
July 2016HailMarshfield-Nickel size hail fell as a thunderstorm passed through Marshfield.
July 2016HailMarshfield-Quarter size hail fell in Marshfield. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Scattered trees were blown down which caused power outages in the city of Marshfield.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines as the storms moved through Marshfield.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph downed trees, some as large as 8 inches in diameter, west of Marshfield.
May 2011HailMarshfield-Quarter size hail fell in Marshfield.
August 2011HailMarshfield-Nickel size hail fell in Marshfield. Time of event is estimated.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-A trailer was tipped over in the city of Marshfield. At least 20 trees were knocked down across Wood County.
July 2011Flash FloodMarshfield-Marshfield Municipal Airport recorded 3.09 inches of rain from 8 PM CST to 930 PM CST. The heavy rainfall caused water to flow across numerous roads in the area.
May 2010HailMarshfield-Penny size hail fell in the Marshfield area.
September 2010HailMarshfield-Hail up to the size of pennies fell for five minutes at Marshfield.
April 2009HailMarshfield-Penny size hail fell in Marshfield.
April 2009HailMarshfield-Penny size hail was observed in Marshfield.
July 2008HailMarshfield-no account filed
July 2008HailMarshfield-no account filed
July 2008HailMarshfield-no account filed
July 2007HailMarshfield-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
August 2004HailMarshfield-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
May 2001HailMarshfield-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
May 2001HailMarshfield-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
March 2000HailMarshfield-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshfield-no account filed
May 1998HailMarshfield-no account filed
June 1996FloodMarshfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Bakerville3.8 miles11
Hewitt4.1 miles11
Nasonville6.7 miles11
Auburndale9.2 miles11
Bethel9.9 miles11
Lindsey10.3 miles11
Arpin11.4 miles11
Blenker14.1 miles6

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 MarshfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569760The 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 1569085. 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.