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Cayuga, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Morse town. It lies in ZIP code area 54546. The Survey maps it on the Morse quadrangle.

Cayuga within Ashland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cayuga between 1992 and 2012, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
18 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestPIT
18 June 2000Naturalunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBAD RIVER
15 June 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDER LAKE
14 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCONLEY ROAD
6 May 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National Forestnot named
11 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland 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 Cayuga: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Berkshire MineIronPast Producer1848, 1922, 1924
Berkshire MineIronPast Producer1922
Cayuga Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
City Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Penokee DepositIronProspect1848
Spillerberg Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Waldemar Hanson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
West Gogebic Taconite DepositIronPast Producer1848

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuga in 2 storm reports in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2020Thunderstorm WindCayuga-A tree was downed onto Highway 77.
September 2020HailCayuga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Morse3.3 miles10
Foster Junction4.9 miles12
Tannery Town5.4 miles12
Mellen5.7 miles12
White City6.0 miles12
Shanagolden9.1 miles11
Glidden9.3 miles10
High Bridge10.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578965. 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.