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Woodland, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Rubicon town. It lies in ZIP code area 53035. It stands on Woodland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hustisford quadrangle.

Woodland within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

5,044 words on this township

The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Rubicon Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

JOHN KOHLINtJER, farmer. Sees. 4 and 5 ; P. 0. Woodland; born in Prussia in 1832; he came to Wisconsin in 1847, locating, with his father, in the town of Herman, where ho remained till he 24 years old, when he purchased seventy-two acres in See. 4, afterward adding 129 acres, his present homestead. Mr. Rohlinger is considered a very successful former, raising both stock and grain. He married, in 1857, Mi.ss M. Hein, a native of Germany; they have eight children. Mr. Rohlinger has been Justice of the Peace for two years, and a member of the School Board for nine years, also Clerk and Treasurer. Democrat in politics.

Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, 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 Rubicon Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Woodland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources366
6 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources403
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3618010
30 October 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3620037

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Woodland: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Copper, Lead. 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
Mayville MineIron, Copper, LeadPast Producer1892, 1928
Iron Ridge MineIronPast Producer1849, 1914
Iron Ridge MineIronPast Producer1849
Mayville MineIronPast Producer1892
Bohnert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kranich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roll PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sanitary Transfer & Landfll Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland in 1 storm report in 2022: 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 2022HailWoodland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Iron Ridge2.2 miles10
Huilsburg3.2 miles15
Neda3.7 miles10
Rubicon3.8 miles15
Neosho4.1 miles9
Herman Center4.3 miles15
Hustisford4.7 miles9
Saylesville6.4 miles15

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 WoodlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032797The 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 1576989. 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.