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Delta, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Delta town. It lies in ZIP code area 54856. It stands on South Fork White River. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Delta within Bayfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 1992 and 2019, burning about 150 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
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1995Naturalunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National Forestnot named
9 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestFINGER LAKE
8 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestRAINBOW TRASH
31 July 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCEDAR CREEK ROAD
4 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestSUNDAY
24 June 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Delta: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Barbara and Simon Susienka PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazel Hills Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spider Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 5 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 2025Thunderstorm WindDelta-Three large trees were down along Scenic Drive.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDelta-Photos were received showing many trees down throughout a campground. The trees all appeared to be large and healthy and were uprooted by the thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDelta-Multiple reports were received of downed trees on roadways including County Highway H, Scenic Drive and Yderstad Road along with adjacent driveways between the Village of Delta and the Town of Drummond.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDelta-Multiple trees were downed onto roads between Iron River and Delta, Wisconsin.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDelta-A few trees were downed on Phantom Lake Road southwest of Ino.

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Pike River1.8 miles11
Sutherland5.5 miles11
Ino6.3 miles13
Topside6.6 miles12
Drummond9.4 miles13
Iron River9.7 miles13
Benoit10.4 miles12
Grand View11.2 miles9

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 DeltaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254548The 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 1579114. 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.