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Cranmoor, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cranmoor town. It lies in ZIP code area 54495. The Survey maps it on the Babcock quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Cranmoor within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cranmoor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3
Smoking3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCEMETERY
28 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLYNN HILL FIRE
9 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIRTHDAY BEAR FIRE
7 August 2012Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCASINO FIRE
6 August 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDOUBLE GEORGE FIRE
4 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLANGER FIRE
27 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cranmoor in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2011Tornado (EF1)Cranmoor1 hurt, $1,020,000The tornado moved out of Juneau County at 6:03 pm CDT (1703 CST) and moved east-northeast across southern Wood County. The storm hit a campground on the east shore of the Wisconsin River about three miles south of Nekoosa. Over 100 pine trees were snapped and uprooted on the campground, some two feet in diameter (DI 28 DOD 4). Several camper vehicles were damaged by fallen trees. The tornado was seen by campground visitors just before 6:15 pm. The tornado continued east-northeast and snapped or uprooted hundreds of additional trees south of Wisconsin Rapids. The storm damaged at least six homes and several other outbuildings about six miles south-southeast of Wisconsin Rapids. One of the houses lost the entire roof of a garage (DI 2, DOD 4). A woman in the garage at the time sustained injuries when the garage fell on the truck that she was taking shelter in. This area experienced high-end EF1 damage with winds at least 95 to 105 mph. The tornado entered Portage County at 6:20 PM CDT (1720 CST).
September 2022HailCranmoor-Ping pong size hail fell near Nekoosa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCranmoor-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted trees along Highway 54 between County Road GG and County Road D.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Ceex Haci4.2 miles8
Babcock4.2 miles13
Walker5.7 miles8
Dexterville5.9 miles13
Nekoosa6.8 miles8
Nekoosa Junction7.8 miles8
Port Edwards9.2 miles8
Pittsville9.9 miles13

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 CranmoorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5182221The 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 1577559. 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.

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.