Birch, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sanborn town. It lies in ZIP code area 54559. The Survey maps it on the Cedar quadrangle.

Birch within Ashland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1943 USGS Odanah quadrangle1:48000
1945 USGS Odanah quadrangle1:48000
1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Cedar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Odanah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1989 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Birch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 August 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FIRE LANE
31 August 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MADIGAN FIRE
20 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FIRE LANE 2
24 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 July 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Great Lakes Agency	not named
2 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Great Lakes Agency	BASKETBALL
13 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Ashland 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 Birch: 1 occurrence. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cedar Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birch in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Birch	-	Downed trees and power lines were reported from the storm.
April 2013	Flood	Birch	-	The Bad River flooded parts of the Odanah and Mellen areas.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Odanah	8.0 miles	11
High Bridge	13.4 miles	9
White River	14.6 miles	11
North York	14.7 miles	11
Minersville	14.9 miles	11
White City	15.1 miles	12
Marengo	15.1 miles	11
Mellen	15.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577516. 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.