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Cedar, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gurney town. It lies in ZIP code area 54559. The Survey maps it on the Oronto Bay quadrangle.

Cedar within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Cedar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Natural1

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE LANE
20 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE LANE 2
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2000Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGreat Lakes Agencynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron 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 Cedar: 7 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Barr Creek PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cedar Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lawrence Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lower Rd Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lower Road Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Potato River Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Potato River Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upper Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Vaughn Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 1 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2016Flash FloodCedar1 killed, $1,000Flash flooding along the Oronto and Parker Creeks damaged the infrastructure of Saxon Harbor and parts of the Saxon Harbor Campground. One man died from the flooding.
May 2013FloodCedar-Flooding continued from late April. Numerous roads were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Gurney2.4 miles9
Saxon4.5 miles11
Kimball10.3 miles11
Upson10.7 miles11
Iron Belt11.8 miles11
Hoyt12.5 miles11
Pence13.6 miles11
Montreal14.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578967. 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.