New Fane, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Auburn town. It lies in ZIP code area 53040. The Survey maps it on the Kewaskum quadrangle. It stands 978 feet above sea level.
On record in New Fane
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
Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 1986
St. Matthias Missionlisted 1988
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Kewaskum quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Kewaskum quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Kewaskum quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
5,281 words on this townshipThe History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Auburn Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first election after Auburn and Ashford were separated, was in April, 1849, at which twenty-seven votes were cast. T. S. Wilcox was elected Chairman; M. Buckland, Clerk; A. W. Wheeler, Assessor; C. D. Gage, Collector, and M. Miller, Superintendent of Schools.
Passage source: The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880.
Eblesville. - This village was founded by Andrew Eble, who came from Milwaukee, in 1855, purchased the water-power and built a saw-mill. He was accidentally shot on Christmas, 1859. The New Fane Post Office, established on the line between Sections 29 and 30 in 1851, by T. S. Wilcox, was moved to Eblesville in 1875. The village consists of a saw and feed mill, two stores, Lutheran Church, built in 1871, and the usual number of shops.
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.
Fires near this place
19 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of New Fane between 2004 and 2020, burning about 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201865 |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 838 |
| 1 May 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 29 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201836 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201839 |
| 3 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 24 |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 755 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Fane in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2006 | Hail | New Fane | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Prospect | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Campbellsport | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Elmore | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Dundee | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Waucousta | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Chinatown | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Kilian | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Ashford | 10.0 miles | 9 |
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 New Fane | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7007557 | 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 1570212. 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.
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.





