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Bethel, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Richfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54410. The Survey maps it on the Arpin quadrangle.

Bethel within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 2003 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2009272
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1808121
18 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0053-20
11 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20021
31 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20032
20 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMLODIK DB FIRE
17 October 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethel in 1 storm report in 1999: 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBethel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Arpin2.9 miles11
Hewitt7.2 miles11
Pittsville7.2 miles13
Auburndale7.4 miles11
Vesper7.8 miles8
Bakerville9.1 miles11
Sherry9.7 miles6
Nasonville9.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561624. 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.

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.