Van Dyne, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Friendship town. It lies in ZIP code area 54979. The Survey maps it on the Van Dyne quadrangle. 292 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Van Dyne within Fond du Lac County

Population over time

2 figures

Van Dyne grew from 279 to 292 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	279
2020	292	+13 (+5%)

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.

1956 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Van Dyne quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Van Dyne quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

3,345 words on this township

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

In 1879, a cheese factory was built in the town. The Chicago & North-Western Railway extends across Friendship from south to north, maintaining a station at Van Dyne. In 1851, the inhabitants along the lake shore began to be uneasy when, without any apparent reasonable cause. Lake Winnebago began to steadily advance upon their shore lands. As the waters continued to advance, they continued to be more uneasy. Nearly one thousand acres were overflowed at this time, caused by the erection of dams at Neenah and Menasha.

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

The first sermon was preached by the Rev. Morgan L. Noble in 1844, in Peter V. Sang's house. The town now contains four church edifices - one Baptist, two Methodist and one Catholic, the Methodists erecting the first on Section 34, about 1859 or 1860.

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 Friendship Town - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Van Dyne between 2006 and 2019, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018086
26 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	195013
13 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	8171321
5 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	70
14 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	8029337
16 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018049

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Fond du Lac	5.4 miles	13
Minawa Beach	7.1 miles	13
Linden Beach	7.3 miles	12
Bergen Beach	7.3 miles	12
Gladstone Beach	7.3 miles	12
Luco	7.5 miles	13
Welling Beach	7.5 miles	12
Eldorado	7.6 miles	10

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 Van Dyne	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11704983	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 1584511. 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.