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Doering, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Schley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54435. The Survey maps it on the Doering quadrangle. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.

Doering within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Doering between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
3 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCARBON FIRE
11 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHEINEMAN RD FIRE
8 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Doering: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Vilas Dump PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doering in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDoering$2,000Thunderstorm winds carried a 15 to 20 foot section of barn roof 400 to 500 yards into a field.
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Doering-The tornado that developed about 3 miles northwest of Glandon in Marathon County around 4:44 PM CDT crossed the Lincoln County line around 4:46 PM CDT. The tornado tracked north-northeast and crossed County Road X and Highway 64, downing trees and producing significant damage to garages and outbuildings by tearing off most of the roof of a garage. The tornado dissipated 5 miles south of Doering at the end of Elm Ridge Road in Lincoln County around 4:55 PM CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 4.33 miles long, with a width of 100 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 110 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDoering-Thunderstorm winds downed trees east of Doering, on County Road X.
June 2007HailDoering-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDoering-no account filed
June 1997HailDoering-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Dutch Corners4.8 miles12
Bloomville5.4 miles9
Gleason5.5 miles11
Dudley6.9 miles11
Pine River11.1 miles12
Merrill12.5 miles12
Otis12.7 miles9
Irma13.6 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 DoeringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5288080The 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 1577575. 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.