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Couderay, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Couderay Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54828. It stands on Eddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Couderay quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Couderay within Sawyer County

Population over time

2 figures

Couderay fell from 88 to 81 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201088
202081-7 (-8%)

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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Couderay between 1994 and 2019, burning about 59 acres in total. 1 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
9 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLEMINGTON FIRE
31 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyCC POWERLINE
24 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEDWARDS ROAD FIRE
2 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Couderay: 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Beverly Lake Quartzite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Atherton Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beaver Brook Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Birch Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chafer Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chafer Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Devils Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Edwards Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ken Miracle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
King Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Couderay in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCouderay-Some small trees and branches blown down east on Highway 70 near Couderay.
July 2008HailCouderay-Penny and nickel sized hail fell at State Highway 27 and County Highway C.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCouderay-Twelve inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCouderay-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2000HailCouderay-no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindCouderay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Lemington3.5 miles9
Radisson4.9 miles8
Reserve7.3 miles9
Weirgor7.6 miles8
Yarnell7.6 miles8
Meteor7.9 miles8
Hauer8.1 miles8
Chief Lake9.2 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 CouderayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q744816The 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 1563431. 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.