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Coomer, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in La Follette town. It lies in ZIP code area 54837. It stands on Kent Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clam Falls quadrangle. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Coomer within Burnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Coomer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning43
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Debris and open burning1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMANGELSEN HANK FIRE
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMANGELSON RYE FIRE
21 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Coomer: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Viola Lake Clay PitClayOccurrence
Big Sand Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
North Fork Clam River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Near Clam FallsCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Clam FallsCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Burnett County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coomer in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCoomer-Several trees were down onto a roadway.
June 2023HailCoomer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burnett 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
Hertel6.1 miles14
Siren7.1 miles14
Timberland9.4 miles13
Bashaw10.4 miles13
Webster10.7 miles14
Oakland14.4 miles14
Falun14.4 miles12
Yellow Lake14.8 miles14

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 CoomerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5167629The 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 1563356. 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.