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Cuba City, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cuba City City. It lies in ZIP code area 53807. The Survey maps it on the Cuba City quadrangle. 2,138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Cuba City within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cuba City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 May 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191476
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202013
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064
18 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202011
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201808

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 138 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 138 workings within 5 miles of Cuba City: 73 unknowns, 62 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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
Raisbeck MineZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadUnknownBarite
Byrnes MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1927, 1928
Hird No.1 MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1913, 1915
New Calvert MineZinc, LeadProspect1917
Big Patch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
George Wendtlandt Inc Deiter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johns QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mauthe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Badger MineLead, ZincPast Producer1900
Beloit-ElmoLead, ZincPast Producer1908, 1909

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba City in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindCuba City$50,000A wind gust of 68 mph occurred in Cuba City. The roof of a private school was blown off by the winds.
September 2000HailCuba City$10,000no account filed
September 2000HailCuba City$7,500no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCuba City$4,000Large trees were blown down and tin was ripped off a shed near Cuba City.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCuba City$4,000Tree was blow down on a car on south Jefferson Street.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCuba City$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCuba City-A wind gust of 60 miles per hour was reported in Cuba City.
July 2018FloodCuba City-Heavy rains caused some street flooding to occur in Cuba City.
June 2014HailCuba City-Quarter sized hail fell in Cuba City.
August 2010FloodCuba City-Street flooding was reported after heavy rains in Cuba City.
August 2010Heavy RainCuba City-In two hours, 3.69 inches of rain fell 2 miles northwest of Cuba City.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Cuba City-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
April 2020HailCuba City-no account filed
May 2003HailCuba City-no account filed
May 2002HailCuba City-no account filed
April 2002HailCuba City-no account filed
May 2000HailCuba City-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCuba City-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCuba City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Saint Rose1.3 miles14
Elmo2.6 miles13
Georgetown3.2 miles14
Bigpatch4.9 miles13
Hazel Green5.0 miles14
Jamestown6.4 miles17
Louisburg6.9 miles17
Prairie Corners7.3 miles17

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 Cuba CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569875The 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 1563606. 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.