Marshland, Wisconsin
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Buffalo town. It lies in ZIP code area 54629. It lies near Piper Valley. The Survey maps it on the Winona East quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1929 USGS Fountain City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Winona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1937 USGS Winona quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Winona East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
8,923 words on this townshipHistory of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Buffalo Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The town of Buffalo was at first the whole county, as may be seen from the act establishing the latter. It naturally grew smaller and finally, after the establishment of the town of Milton or EJagle Mills was reduced to the present size, if we add to it the land contained in the village of Fountain City. Within the present limits Charles Bippes was the first settler, first on the bluff, afterwards in the valley, which was named after him, but by a corruption of the name is now called Piper's Valley. He came with his brother-in-law, Adam Raetz, in 1851, was at the first election chosen clerk of the county board, but never served, and has not lived in this county for many years. Henry Plath and Henry Heuer settled in 1854, G-ottlieb Keller, Gottlieb Kranse and Jacob Botzett in 1855 also Alfred Street, Fritz Thuemmel, Christian Diener, Andrew Risser, William Multhaupt and Michael Schniep. The settlement after this was quite rapid. The Greenbay Railroad runs through the eastern and southern part of the town, which occasioned the establishment of Marshland Station and postoffice. The first marriage is said to have been that of Jacob Botzett to Christina Simon in 1856. The first death was the father ofWm. Multhaupt. The first birth was Henry Street, son of Alfred Street in the winter of 1857.
Passage source: History of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, published 1888.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
12 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Marshland between 1993 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Trempeleau National Wildlife Refuge | BFC |
| 3 May 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 14 |
| 23 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Trempeleau National Wildlife Refuge | DUNE |
| 12 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018 |
| 26 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 12 |
| 23 March 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Marshland: 14 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C Carhart Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| F Klein Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| F Klein Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Many Waters Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Marshland Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| R Bark Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| R Kriesel Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Sonsalla Farms Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| A Losinski Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Big Bend Shale Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshland in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marshland | $25,000 | The public reported a very large tree uprooted and another large tree snapped south of Marshland. Branches damaged a shed and destroyed a car. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff Siding | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Bohri (historical) | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Fountain City | 9.6 miles | 16 | |
| Czechville | 14.0 miles | 14 | |
| Glencoe | 14.2 miles | 11 | |
| Anchorage (historical) | 17.2 miles | 19 | |
| Waumandee | 17.7 miles | 11 | |
| Cochrane | 18.3 miles | 14 |
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 Marshland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6773922 | 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 1569087. 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.







