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Bunker Hill, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Westford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53924. It lies near Harrison Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rockbridge quadrangle.

Bunker Hill within Richland 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 142 acres in total. 2 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 burning33
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
19 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMORS 2
24 May 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 Bunker Hill: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Bunker Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chester Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dooley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rego QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snyder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunker Hill in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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 2006HailBunker Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Corwin (historical)1.4 miles11
Germantown2.8 miles11
Cazenovia3.7 miles11
Loyd5.1 miles11
Hub City5.5 miles12
Rockbridge6.5 miles12
Henrietta (historical)7.4 miles11
Buck Creek7.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578575. 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.