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Conover, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Conover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54519. It stands on Pioneer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stormy Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,657 feet above sea level.

Conover within Vilas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Conover between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
27 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIG PORT LIGHTNING
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 45 4
9 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 45 3
9 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 45 2
9 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 45 1
3 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLOWAGE LANDING
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vilas 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 Conover: 11 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them 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
Big Portage Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chamberlain Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Dakota Rd Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Deer Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Buckatabon Rd Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lac Des Fleurs Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lac Des Fleurs Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Monheim Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Muskrat Creek Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nudist Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Vilas County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conover in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindConover$10,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindConover$3,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindConover-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines southwest of Phelps. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindConover-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Conover. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindConover-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Conover. The time of this event is an estimate based on the Emergency Manager.
June 2022HailConover-Nickel size hail fell near Conover.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindConover-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Conover. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2017HailConover-Nickel size hail fell at Conover.
May 2012HailConover-Quarter size hail fell near Conover.
August 2011HailConover-Nickel size hail fell near Conover.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindConover-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines and large tree branches in Conover.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindConover-no account filed
April 2004HailConover-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindConover-no account filed
August 2003HailConover-no account filed
April 2003HailConover-no account filed
September 2002HailConover-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindConover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vilas 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
Land O' Lakes7.6 miles15
Phelps9.0 miles15
Eagle River9.5 miles14
Star Lake11.4 miles14
Sayner15.3 miles13
Saint Germain16.1 miles13
Boulder Junction20.9 miles17
Arbor Vitae23.4 miles12

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 ConoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5162358The 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 1579036. 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.