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Beaver, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Beaver town. It lies in ZIP code area 54114. It stands on North Branch Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crivitz quadrangle.

Beaver within Marinette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Beaver between 1992 and 2019, burning about 174 acres in total. 1 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 64
12 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2014Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHERRY TREE
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24TH ROAD FIRE
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin 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 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Beaver: 14 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Beaver Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Left Foot Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Hump Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Parkside Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peshtigo River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Peshtigo River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pound PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pound PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Road Bend Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaver-Thunderstorm winds, estimated at 65 mph, downed trees in southwest Marinette County, around Beaver. The time of this report is estimated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBeaver-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Beaver.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBeaver-no account filed
September 2004HailBeaver-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBeaver-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
Pound3.1 miles10
Coleman5.1 miles10
Crivitz6.6 miles10
Loomis7.3 miles10
Middle Inlet10.7 miles9
May Corner10.8 miles10
Harmony10.8 miles10
Porterfield11.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561419. 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.