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Carter, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wabeno town. It lies in ZIP code area 54566. It stands on Oneva Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wabeno quadrangle.

Carter within Forest County

On record in Carter

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

7 surveys from 11 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Carter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks3
Natural3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
16 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHOGAN'S PIT
27 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestVALLEY VIEW
25 July 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 1998Smokingunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestQUARTZ TRAIL
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestNICOLET HORN
26 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Carter: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 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
Carter Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Geiter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indian Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Outskirts Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Range Line Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carter in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2010Funnel CloudCarter-A funnel cloud was observed near County Highway C in Carter. Time of siting is estimated.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCarter-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees around Carter.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCarter-Trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds in southeast Forest County.
June 2007HailCarter-Hail covered the ground.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCarter-Half a dozen trees down.
May 1995HailCarter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forest 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
Minertown (historical)0.5 miles11
Oneva (historical)0.8 miles11
Soperton3.3 miles11
Wabeno3.7 miles11
Padus7.3 miles11
Blackwell8.5 miles9
Blackwell Junction9.8 miles9
Woodlawn10.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578953. 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.