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Armstrong Creek, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Armstrong Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 54103. The Survey maps it on the Armstrong Creek quadrangle.

Armstrong Creek within Forest County

On record in Armstrong Creek

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 2 records

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.

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Armstrong Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Other causes3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
12 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCAMP 6
4 August 1992Debris and open burning8.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHURCH FIRE
9 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Armstrong Creek: 12 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Armstrong Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Camp B Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Crossroads Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dogleg Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fiddle Top Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Finger Ridge Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Foxhead Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Goodman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Goose Point Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kus Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong Creek in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Armstrong Creek$50,000A second tornado formed in Forest County about four miles west of Armstrong Creek at 8:03 pm CDT (1903 CST). The tornado snapped and uprooted trees and damaged two houses. One of the houses sustained significant roof damage (DI 2, DOD 4) as the tornado moved across the area. The average width was 125 yards.
May 2011HailArmstrong Creek-Quarter size hail fell in Armstrong Creek.
July 2003HailArmstrong Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forest 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
Cavour9.7 miles10
Blackwell13.3 miles9
Laona13.7 miles9
Blackwell Junction14.1 miles9
Newald14.8 miles10
Popple River15.6 miles10
Padus16.2 miles11
Soperton18.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578671. 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.