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Blueberry, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Maple town. It lies in ZIP code area 54854. The Survey maps it on the Lake Nebagamon quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Blueberry within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Blueberry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use36
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
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
8 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAUTIO FIRE
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTENNIS COURT
19 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMITH CREEK 1
19 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMITH CREEK 2
19 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMITH CREEK 17
19 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMITH CREEK 13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Blueberry: 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper. 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
Martinson Clay & Gravel PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Along Anderson CLead, CopperOccurrence
AstorCopperUnknownChalcopyrite
PercivalCopperUnknownCopper
Bellwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Blueberry Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blueberry Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blueberry Creek Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blueberry Creek Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Blueberry Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blueberry in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBlueberry$1,500Three large trees were blown down.
September 2021Flash FloodBlueberry-A culvert was damaged by a flash flood along Highway FF in Maple.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBlueberry-Numerous branches were broken and a measured wind gust of 53 mph was recorded as well.
July 2020Tornado (EF1)Blueberry-A weak, brief tornado formed along a line of thunderstorms that moved across Douglas County between 1:00 AM and 2:00 AM CDT. Meteorologists were tracking a number of weak areas of rotation on radar as these storms moved through, and a Tornado Warning was issued for one such area of rotation at 1:10 AM CDT including Maple and Blueberry. At 1:43 AM CDT, meteorologists saw a dramatic increase in radar-detected rotation from this storm just south of Maple, WI, and based on this information issued an additional Tornado Warning using radar-confirmed tornado language to indicate the|confidence in a tornado occurring or imminent. Minutes later, a tornado developed north of Maple and Blueberry knocking down dozens of trees, including snapping some trees off near the base. Just as soon as it developed, the area of rotation weakened|considerably. Radar indicates this tornado may have begun a few minutes earlier but at this time there is not enough conclusive damage evidence that the tornado formed earlier than documented.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBlueberry-An 8 diameter tree was blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBlueberry-There were large trees down along County Road F.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBlueberry-Trees were blown down.
October 2022HailBlueberry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Bellwood1.7 miles12
Maple2.8 miles12
Lake Nebagamon4.8 miles12
Brule5.2 miles10
Winneboujou5.6 miles10
Waino6.5 miles10
Cloverland6.7 miles12
Poplar6.9 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BlueberryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714412The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561962. 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.