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Brill, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Oak Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 54868. The Survey maps it on the Rice Lake North quadrangle.

Brill within Barron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Brill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
6 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesR.C. LAKE
23 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPIONEER ROAD FIRE
17 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barron County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Brill: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. 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
C. & R. Quillen Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Campia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Drew PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
E. & G. Novak Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kahl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Martinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Brothers Transfer Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Brothers Transfer Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Barron County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brill in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 2 hail, 2 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 2011Thunderstorm WindBrill-Several large tree branches were blown down near Brill.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrill-Trees were downed.
June 2004HailBrill-no account filed
June 1994HailBrill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barron 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
Dobie3.6 miles8
Mikana3.8 miles8
Angus4.4 miles8
Campia4.5 miles8
Tuscobia5.2 miles8
Haugen5.5 miles8
Rice Lake7.5 miles8
Horseman9.6 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562209. 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.