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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.

Marshland within Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

8,923 words on this township

History 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.

Read the whole chapter on Buffalo Town.

Fires near this place

12 since 1993

Regional 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
25 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTrempeleau National Wildlife RefugeBFC
3 May 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
23 April 1993Debris and open burning65 acresTrempeleau National Wildlife RefugeDUNE
12 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018
26 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources12
23 March 1996Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C Carhart Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Klein Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Klein Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Many Waters Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marshland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Bark Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Kriesel Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sonsalla Farms Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
A Losinski Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Big Bend Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMarshland$25,000The public reported a very large tree uprooted and another large tree snapped south of Marshland. Branches damaged a shed and destroyed a car.

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Bluff Siding3.3 miles18
Bohri (historical)5.5 miles16
Fountain City9.6 miles16
Czechville14.0 miles14
Glencoe14.2 miles11
Anchorage (historical)17.2 miles19
Waumandee17.7 miles11
Cochrane18.3 miles14

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 MarshlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6773922The 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.