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Drywood, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Arthur town. It lies in ZIP code area 54727. The Survey maps it on the Crescent quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Drywood within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Drywood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOBBAN MONUMENT
5 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeRUNNING S
15 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesS AND J 1
8 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCLOVERBELT FIRE
25 May 2010Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSILVER LIGHTNING
23 May 1997Other causes6.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 Drywood: 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
J. Dresel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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
Crescent1.8 miles6
Cobban4.3 miles6
Jim Falls5.6 miles9
Colburn6.6 miles6
Cadott7.0 miles11
Anson7.8 miles14
Cornell8.3 miles6
Bateman9.7 miles14

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 DrywoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5309820The 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 1564128. 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.