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Breed, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Breed town. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. The Survey maps it on the Breed quadrangle.

Breed within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Breed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 4 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 burning37
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 32 AND WILLOW RD. FIRE
26 July 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breed in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 4 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 2017Thunderstorm WindBreed$3,500Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged the roof of a cottage and downed several trees near Breed.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBreed-A thunderstorm wind gust of 77 mph was measured at the Mountain RAWS fire observation site.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBreed-Thunderstorm winds snapped multiple trees north of Breed.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindBreed-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Breed. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Logan1.6 miles9
Bonita3.7 miles9
Hayes5.1 miles6
Suring5.8 miles6
Frostville7.0 miles9
Mountain8.1 miles11
Hickory Corners10.2 miles9
Hintz10.9 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578857. 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.