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Boylston, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Superior town. It lies in ZIP code area 54880. It stands on Black River. The Survey maps it on the Borea quadrangle.

Boylston within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Boylston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 557 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Equipment and vehicle use38
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Boylston: 9 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Copper CreekCopperUnknownCopper
Big Manitou Falls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Copper Creek Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Copper Creek Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Granum QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Albany Crushing PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Albany Crushing Plant PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Copper Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Copper Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Copper Creek Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boylston in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 2 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBoylston-A patio table was flipped over and 3 to 4 gallon potted plants were knocked over by the winds as well.
June 2021HailBoylston-no account filed
September 2017HailBoylston-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
Boylston Junction1.2 miles12
Black River2.6 miles12
Borea3.0 miles12
Sunnyside3.9 miles12
Ambridge4.1 miles16
Superior Village4.3 miles16
South Superior5.3 miles16
Dedham5.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577524. 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.