BlockWoodhull, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lamartine town. It lies in ZIP code area 54932. The Survey maps it on the Eldorado quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1956 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Eldorado quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Eldorado quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
10,871 words on this townshipThe History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Lamartine Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
LAWRENCE EXNIS, "farmer, Sec. 8; P. 0. Woodhull ; is a native of County Wicklow, Ireland ; born April 15, ISol, and is the son of James Ennis and Winford Doyle, with whom he made his home in his native country until 19 years of age. In May, 1850, he emigrated to America, and landed in Quebec, where he followed teaming for five years. April 18, 1855, he married Mis.s Letetia, daughter of Patrick and iMary Greening, nee Finland, of Canada West, but a native of County Monahan, Ireland ; they then went to St. Louis, Mo., for a few months, thence to Jacksonville, 111., for a short time, and lastly to Fund du Lac, where they lived fourteen years In the fall of 1808, he bought a firm of eighty-five and one-half acres in Section 8, town of Lamartine, where he has since been a farmer. They hid one son - James, deceased,' and are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Fond du Lac.
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 Lamartine Town - it names this place 6 more 6 times.
Fires near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Woodhull between 1997 and 2020, burning about 772 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Leopold Wetland Management District | NKING CHASE |
| 5 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | BRADLEY2 |
| 30 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 74 |
| 4 May 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 23 |
| 4 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Leopold Wetland Management District | SCHOENBERG |
| 21 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | BRADLEY RD |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 51181 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodhull in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodhull | $3,000 | Several trees and branches down, one uprooted. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodhull | $2,000 | Three-inch tree limbs down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamartine | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Rogersville | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Eldorado | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| North Fond du Lac | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rosendale | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Oakfield | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Ladoga | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Fond du Lac | 6.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577891. 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.