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Casimir, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hull town. It lies in ZIP code area 54481. It stands on Hay Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stevens Point quadrangle.

Casimir within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Casimir between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use50
Debris and open burning35
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPARK FIRE
12 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTRAW BALE FIRE
30 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

4 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casimir in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCasimir-Thunderstorm winds downed and uprooted multiple trees near Stevens Point. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCasimir-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Stevens Point. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCasimir-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Stevens Point. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2021Flash FloodCasimir-Thunderstorms dumped 3 to 5 inches of rain over northern Portage County during the evening hours. This caused several roads to be closed and barricaded due to flash flooding across much of the county.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Rocky Run2.5 miles7
Stevens Point3.6 miles9
Mill Creek Community4.2 miles7
Park Ridge4.8 miles9
Jordan5.4 miles9
Whiting5.9 miles7
Torun6.0 miles9
Stockton8.5 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562773. 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.