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Marytown, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Calumet town. It lies in ZIP code area 53061. The Survey maps it on the Marytown quadrangle. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Marytown within Fond du Lac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

5,392 words on this township

The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Calumet Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Marytown is a hamlet and post office in the easteim portion of the town. It has a good grist-mill, blacksmith-shop, and other village concomitants. St. Mary's Church is south of the village, on Section 27, and St. John's Church east, on Section SO. Both are Catholic and prosperous.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

JACOB KEIKER!^, dealer in general nierehandise, Calumet Harbor; was born in the city of Marne, Holstein, Geriiiany, December ol. 1833. He attended the schools in his native city and obtained a proficient education. In 18-tS, he emigrated to this country with his purents, and settled with them at New Holstein, Calumet Co., Wis , where they remained until the following spring. 1840, when they moved to this town (Calumet) ; iu 1870, he engaged in the mercantile business, in Calumet Harbor, and now has a fine, prosperous and constantly increasing trade. He was appointed Postmaster in 1874, a position be still holds; has been Town Clerk since 1875, has also been elected to various school offices. Nov. 26, 1858, he married in Calumet, Miss Eleanor Punke, a native of Brannsheim, Prussia; they have seven ciiildren, viz., Mary, William, Matilda, Mena, Henry, Liuise and Heriu in. Politically, Mr. Reimers acts with the Democratic party. His father, iSIicholas lleimes, was born in Barelt, Holstein, Germany,- Nov. 17, 1801 ; he w.is a soldier for over six years in his native country, serving in the 16th Battery ; he married, Jan. IG, 1833, Miss Kathrine Peters; she was born June 24, 181)6; they came to this country in 1848 and settled at New Holstein, Calumet Co., thus becoming pioneer settlers; they lived in New Holstein until the spring of 1849, when they came to Calumet, where she died June 0, 1876. She was a woman of rare Christian viriues, and one who will be long remembered for her many acts of kindness. He is still living in Calumet, an old and honored citizen ; to him belongs the credit of blazing and cutting out the first road from Marytown to New Holstein, Calumet Co.; this he did in 1848 while he was emigrating to that place. That portion of the county w.is then heavily timbered, and it took him several days to make the trip and do the necossury clearing to make the way passable. The Reimers family are all members of the Lutheran Church.

Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.

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 Calumet Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Marytown between 2018 and 2019, burning about 15 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018053
24 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018057
5 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019011
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018036
29 January 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marytown: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Charlesburg QuarryStoneUnknown
Buechel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Charlesburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmer Fuhrmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wiskerchen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marytown in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 1996Tornado (F2)Marytown1 killed, 1 hurt, $450,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMarytown$500,000no account filed
August 1997LightningMarytown$20,000Lightning struck the kitchen corner of a home... igniting a fire which extensively damaged the kitchen. Smoke damage to the rest of the house was also noted.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMarytown$5,000A roof torn off a milking parlor.
July 1996Tornado (F0)Marytown-no account filed

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
Garnet3.5 miles12
Calvary5.1 miles10
Johnsburg5.3 miles12
Calumetville5.6 miles12
Malone5.6 miles12
Pipe5.8 miles12
Artesia Beach6.2 miles12
Pukwana Beach6.2 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 MarytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6781775The 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 1569109. 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.