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Brackett, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54742. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brackett quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Brackett within Eau Claire 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Brackett between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2

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
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205237
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources204370
10 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources87
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesF18-44
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources116
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources117
27 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources123

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brackett: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cleghorn Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eldore Henning Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eau Claire County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brackett in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBrackett-The roof was blown off a barn.
May 2013HailBrackett-no account filed
September 2012HailBrackett-no account filed
May 2008HailBrackett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eau Claire 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
Green Acres0.4 miles12
Allen2.9 miles12
Nix Corner3.8 miles12
Cleghorn4.2 miles12
Foster4.5 miles12
Hale Corner4.8 miles12
Fall Creek5.8 miles14
Altoona8.6 miles15

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 BrackettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4953706The 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 1562120. 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.