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Beaver Brook, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Beaver Brook town. It lies in ZIP code area 54871. The Survey maps it on the Spooner Lake quadrangle.

Beaver Brook within Washburn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Brook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2006Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washburn 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 Beaver Brook: 11 occurrences, 3 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
Eugene R. Kasten Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gordon Krantz Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
John Furchtenicht Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Joseph Andrea Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Orville Crotteau Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Osterman Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Shallow Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Shell Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shell Lake Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shell Lake Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washburn County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Brook in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 3 hail, 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
July 2014HailBeaver Brook-The hail formed drifts.
July 2014HailBeaver Brook-The hail formed drifts.
August 2014HailBeaver Brook-The were were two waves of hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver Brook-A large billboard sign was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Washburn 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
Sarona3.4 miles9
Chicago Junction4.3 miles8
Shell Lake4.7 miles8
Spooner5.5 miles8
Madge6.1 miles8
Nobleton8.9 miles8
Trego10.1 miles8
Earl11.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577509. 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.