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McFarland, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in McFarland Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53558. The Survey maps it on the Madison East quadrangle. 8,991 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

McFarland within Dane County

On record in McFarland

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

McFarland grew from 7,808 to 8,991 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,808
20208,991+1,183 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of McFarland between 1994 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources256
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1824118
3 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1919678
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1818632
29 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources321998
19 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019367
25 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources186
23 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane 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 McFarland: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Hawkinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kampmeier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McFarland in 1 storm report in 1994: 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMcFarland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Lake Waubesa1.2 miles23
Hope3.6 miles26
Highland Manor3.8 miles23
Bayview Heights3.9 miles19
Monona4.2 miles23
Ethelwyn Park4.3 miles23
Tonyawatha4.7 miles23
Lakeview5.1 miles19

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 McFarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2370269The 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 1569214. 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.