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Barnum, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Haney town. It lies in ZIP code area 54631. It lies near Shaw Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Steuben quadrangle.

Barnum within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Barnum between 1992 and 2019, burning about 184 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR RIDGE
10 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTEUBEN HOLLOW
6 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2008Arson/incendiarism8.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Barnum: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Posey Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Walker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnum in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBarnum$500no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Steuben2.8 miles10
Petersburg3.7 miles10
Plugtown4.8 miles10
Bell Center5.1 miles10
Mount Zion6.2 miles10
Gays Mills6.8 miles10
Harmony Hill6.8 miles10
Seneca7.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561188. 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.