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Brantwood, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Knox town. It lies in ZIP code area 54513. The Survey maps it on the Brantwood quadrangle.

Brantwood within Price County

On record in Brantwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Brantwood between 1993 and 2019, burning about 74 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 maintenance16
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
25 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 1998Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2003Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brantwood: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Heikkinen Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pikes Peak Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ritchie Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scott Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Scott Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brantwood in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Flash FloodBrantwood$50,000Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches with localized amounts in excess of 5 inches fell over much of Price County. The heavier amounts led to flash flooding in the Town of Knox in the form of washed out roads and shoulders along with damaged culverts. This led to a disaster declaration for the county.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBrantwood-Trees and powerlines were reported down in the area.
July 2007Flash FloodBrantwood-Street flooding reported in Brantwood.
April 2002HailBrantwood-no account filed
August 2002HailBrantwood-no account filed
June 2001HailBrantwood-no account filed
May 1998HailBrantwood-no account filed
June 1996HailBrantwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Spirit7.5 miles9
Dover8.4 miles11
Prentice9.2 miles10
Worcester9.8 miles10
Ogema12.7 miles9
Cranberry Lake13.4 miles10
Pennington14.8 miles10
Phillips17.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562158. 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.