BlockBefore

Draper, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Draper town. It lies in ZIP code area 54896. The Survey maps it on the Loretta quadrangle. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.

Draper within Sawyer 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

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Draper between 1993 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestLORETTA
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEASTERHOUSE ROAD FIRE
7 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBILL'S OLD HWY 70 FIRE
4 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Draper: 10 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 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
Brunet River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brunet River Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Brunet River Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clover Road North Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clover Road South Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clover Road South Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Flyblow Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loretta Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Loretta Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Draper in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. 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 2011HailDraper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Loretta1.2 miles11
Oxbo6.9 miles10
Winter10.6 miles8
Ojibwa16.3 miles8
Hay Stack Corner16.6 miles8
New Post18.8 miles11
Radisson22.2 miles8
Couderay26.0 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 DraperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5305848The 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 1579142. 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.