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Chittamo, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Frog Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 54859. The Survey maps it on the Chittamo quadrangle. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Chittamo within Washburn 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Chittamo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCEMENT PLANT
5 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2014Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRED LAKE
1 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR LAKE
21 June 1994Debris and open burning2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washburn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Chittamo: 10 occurrences, 7 past producers, 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
Chittamo Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chittamo Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frog Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Genard Amundson Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Genard Amundson Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Helen Schenk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krumviede PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Larry Nelson Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
T. W. Smith Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waggoner Brothers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washburn County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chittamo in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2023FloodChittamo$30,000Warm temperatures early in April led to rapid snowmelt of a well above normal snowpack across the region. Additionally, heavy rainfall on top of the snowpack led to additional high runoff across the county as well. Roads began to be impacted on the 12th with water overtopping low spots leading to washouts, failed culverts and numerous closed roads. Temperatures cooled during the middle of the month along with a heavy rain/snow event the 16th into the 17th. This allowed the runoff to slow and water levels to drop. Multiple communities issued disaster declarations due to the extent of washed out roads with the worst of the flooding abating by the 20th.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindChittamo-A tree was blown over near Minong by the storms.

Every storm recorded in Washburn 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
Harmon (historical)4.9 miles9
Minong6.1 miles9
Stanberry9.6 miles9
Lampson11.3 miles8
Springbrook12.5 miles8
Earl15.2 miles8
Trego16.7 miles8
Spooner23.0 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ChittamoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5102413The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577546. 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.