Heidel House, in the red since 2009

Green Lake's Heidel House Resort to close in May.  (Madison.com.  3/3/2019)

2011


Stacy Nemeth, chief operating officer of Fiore Companies, which owns the resort, told the Commonwealth Press that Heidel House has had continuous revenue losses over the past decade, which she attributed in part to other nearby tourist hot spots.  (Wisconsin Dells is specifically named.)

2017


“Times have changed, particularly in the hospitality industry, and the resorts of yesteryear aren’t necessarily the resorts that are capturing the interest of a new generation of travelers,” Nemeth said.

The Heidel House was put up for sale in 2016.

Oshkosh Northwestern, 3/11/2016

When Fiore bought Heidel House in the '80s, the company retained a staff charged with managing the 190-room resort, equipped with a high-end spa and three restaurants, Nemeth said. But as Fiore has dropped hotels from its list of properties — and gained industrial buildings, for instance — the company stopped staffing hotel managers, and hired an outside contractor to manage Heidel House in 2014.

Disappearing cities and villages of the Buckeye State: Brook Park, Ohio

It all started here.

Belt Magazine, 1/5/2015

The bus and the train are definitely cheaper than driving but there’s also time lost walking or driving to the station, waiting for the train, and walking to the final destination. If someone has the income to do so, it might actually take less time to drive alone to an exurb than to take the bus home to Euclid or the Rapid to Brook Park.

Source:  Wikipedia

Brook Park's population peaked at 30,773 in 1970.  Its 2016 estimated population is 18,626 -- a drop of 12,147 (39%).

Bordering Cleveland's southwest corner, the City of Brook Park ("A City on the Move") is one of the city's inner ring suburbs.  It was founded in 1914 and incorporated as a city in 1961.  It is located in Cuyahoga County.

Other disappearing cities of the Buckeye State:
Akron. (2/28/2019)
Cambridge.  (2/27/2019)
Canton.  (3/1/2019)
Cleveland.  (1/2/2019)
East Cleveland. (3/2/2019)
East Liverpool.  (2/18/2019)
Gallipolis.  (2/23/2019)
Ironton.  (2/24/2019)
Martins Ferry.  (2/21/2019)
Pomeroy.  (2/22/2019)
Portsmouth.  (2/25/2019)
Steubenville.  (2/20/2019)
Warren.  (1/18/2019)
Youngstown.  (1/9/2019)
Zanesville.  (2/26/2019)

Disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State

Aliquippa.  (1/12/2019)
Ambridge.  (1/17/2019)
Arnold.  (1/18/2019)
Braddock.  (1/19/2019)
Bradford, (1/20/2019)
Carbondale.  (1/21/2019)
Charleroi.  (1/22/2019)
Chester.  (1/23/2019)
Clairton.  (1/24/2019)
Coraopolis.  (1/25/2019)
Dickson City.  (1/26/2019)
Donora.  (1/27/2019)
Duquesne.  (1/28/2019)
Farrell.  (1/29/2019)
Harrisburg.  (2/12/2019)
Homestead.  (1/30/2019)
Johnstown.  (1/6/2019)
McKees Rocks.  (1/31/2019)
McKeesport.  (2/1/2019)
Monessen.  (2/2/2019)
Nanticoke.  (2/3/2019)
New Castle.  (2/4/2019)
New Kensington.  (2/5/2019)
Oil City.  (2/6/2019)
Pittsburgh.  (1/13/2019)
Pittston. (2/7/2019)
Scranton.  (1/14/2019)
Shamokin.  (2/8/2019)
Sharon.  (2/9/2019)
Steelton.  (2/11/2019)
Swissvale.  (2/13/2019)
Titusville.  (2/10/2019)
Uniontown.  (2/14/2019)
Washington.  (2/15/2019)
Willkes-Barre.  (2/16/2019)
Wiklinsburg.  (2/17/2018)

Other U.S. disappearing cities

Baltimore, Maryland.  (12/31/2018)
Benton Harbor, Michigan.  (1/15/2019)
Buffalo, New York, (1/8/2019)
Cairo, Illinois.   (1/5/2019)
Detroit, Michigan.  (1/1/2019)
East St. Louis, Illinois.  (1/11/2019)
Flint, Michigan.  (1/7/2019)
Gary, Indiana.  (1/4/2019)
St. Louis, Missouri.  (1/2/2019)
Wheeling, West Virginia.  (1/16/2019)

UPDATE: Central Florida's record-setting February heat

February rankings: In-depth look at record heat across Central Florida.  (WFTV, 3/2/2019)

2/27/2019 update, "Dear phys.org, Those of us living in Wisconsin know where winter is.  Best, Retiring Guy", starts here.

The evidence is piled high everywhere here.

Photo by Retiring Guy

Where's winter? Western Europe basks in record temperatures.  (phys.org, 2/26/2019)

Retiring Guy's younger son lives in southern Germany.  During our video chat on Sunday, he happily described the "shorts weather" they're currently experiencing.

Here's what going on there today.

On our way to more of the same?

Original 2/2/2019 post, "Record heat scorches Australia in January 2019", starts here.

'Unprecedented': Australia Just Recorded Its Hottest Month on Record in January.  (Weather.com, 1/31/2019)

Related reading:
'Dome of hot air': Australia blows away heat records.  (Sydney Morning Herald, 2/2/2019)
Record Australian heat shows soaring cost of climate change.  (CBC, 2/1/2019)

Related posts:
Australia, scorched.  (1/16/2019)
2018: Hottest year ever for Australian state of New South Wales.  (1/11/2019)
Sea surface temperatures around New Zealand hottest ever in 2018, further threatening marine life.  (1/11/2019)
GET ME REWRITE: Prague experiences hottest year on record for third time this decade.  (1/6/2019)
Climate change as a matter of fact: Red-hot summer of record heat in Europe.  (8/18/2018)
UPDATE: July 2018 is hottest month ever in California.  (8/18/2018)