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Bevent, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Reid town. The Survey maps it on the Bevent quadrangle.

Bevent within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Bevent between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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
20 September 2004Debris and open burning2.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMISSION LAKE
8 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE RD.
6 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY J
6 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEN'S BURNER
5 May 1992Smoking3.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bevent: 1 producer. All of them 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
Marathon County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bevent in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBevent$5,000no account filed
June 2024HailBevent-Nickel size hail fell in Bevent.
April 2021HailBevent-Nickel size hail fell near Bevent.
June 2020HailBevent-Quarter size hail fell in Bevent.
June 2008HailBevent-no account filed
July 1997HailBevent-no account filed
July 1997HailBevent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Little Eau Claire3.3 miles9
Pike Lake4.1 miles9
Holt5.0 miles7
Shantytown6.0 miles7
Elderon7.7 miles7
Galloway7.7 miles7
Hatley8.5 miles9
Ringle8.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561665. 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.