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Amberg, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Amberg town. It lies in ZIP code area 54102. It stands on North Branch Pike River. The Survey maps it on the Amberg quadrangle.

Amberg within Marinette County

On record in Amberg

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Amberg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use32
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Fireworks4
Natural3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRIDAY FIRE
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2001Other causes73 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCK FIRE
6 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Amberg: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
Silvery Grey QuarryStoneUnknown
Amberg Clay PitClayPast Producer
Holmes Clay PitClayPast Producer
Amberg Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Amberg Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Amberg Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boshen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burdell Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cedar Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Downing Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amberg in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 4 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
August 2020HailAmberg-Nickel size hail fell near Amberg.
September 2014HailAmberg-Thunderstorms dropped quarter size hail near Amberg.
May 2012HailAmberg-Quarter size hail fell at Amberg.
August 2002HailAmberg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Cedarville3.5 miles9
Beecher Lake4.6 miles11
Beecher5.9 miles11
Athelstane7.7 miles8
Pembine9.1 miles11
Wausaukee9.4 miles9
White Pine Haven11.4 miles11
Kremlin (historical)12.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1560815. 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.