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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.

New Fane within Fond du Lac County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

5,281 words on this township

The 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.

Read the whole chapter on Auburn Town.

Fires near this place

19 since 2004

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201865
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources838
1 May 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201836
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201839
3 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources755

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2006HailNew Fane-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
New Prospect4.2 miles12
Campbellsport5.7 miles9
Elmore6.4 miles9
Dundee7.0 miles13
Waucousta7.8 miles9
Chinatown9.0 miles13
Saint Kilian9.3 miles9
Ashford10.0 miles9

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 FaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7007557The 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.