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Dedham, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Superior town. It lies in ZIP code area 54836. The Survey maps it on the Borea quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Dedham within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Dedham between 1992 and 2019, burning about 895 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
5 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBALE FIRE
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Dedham: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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
Big Manitou Falls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Copper CreekCopperUnknownCopper
CulliganCopperUnknownCopper
Stupak QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Church PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Copper Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Copper Creek Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
La Gro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Manitou Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nemadji River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dedham in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDedham-Trees were downed by the storm at the Pattison Park Golf Course.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDedham-Two trees were uprooted near Pattison State Park.
June 2021HailDedham-no account filed
July 2020HailDedham-no account filed
July 2020HailDedham-no account filed
July 2020HailDedham-no account filed
July 2020HailDedham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Black River3.0 miles12
Borea3.1 miles12
Dewey3.1 miles12
Patzau3.7 miles12
Boylston5.3 miles12
Foxboro5.6 miles12
Boylston Junction6.5 miles12
Four Corners7.0 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 DedhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5249775The 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 1577568. 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.