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Blaine, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Belmont town. It lies in ZIP code area 54909. The Survey maps it on the Blaine quadrangle.

Blaine within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Blaine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 425 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPROCESSOR FIRE
28 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBARBER CHAIR FIRE
17 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPER FIRE
4 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIREWORKS
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blaine in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2004Tornado (F1)Blaine$200,000no account filed
March 2025HailBlaine-Nickel size hail fell near Blaine.
September 2017HailBlaine-Nickel size hail fell northwest of Blaine.
April 2011HailBlaine-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail that fell north of Wild Rose.
June 2008HailBlaine-no account filed
March 2000HailBlaine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Almond6.0 miles6
West Almond7.9 miles6
Keene9.3 miles6
Amherst9.9 miles6
Bancroft10.5 miles7
Amherst Junction11.0 miles6
Fancher11.2 miles6
West Bancroft11.4 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561908. 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.