Dudley, Wisconsin
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Russell town. It lies in ZIP code area 54435. The Survey maps it on the Gleason quadrangle. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1940 USGS Parrish quadrangle1:48000
- 1950 USGS Parrish quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Parrish quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Gleason quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Dudley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HEINEMAN RD FIRE |
| 8 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dudley in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dudley | - | Strong winds from thunderstorms downed trees along Highway 17 in eastern 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gleason | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Bloomville | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Doering | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Dutch Corners | 8.2 miles | 12 | |
| Harrison | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Irma | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Bundy | 11.5 miles | 11 | |
| Jeffris | 11.6 miles | 9 |
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 Dudley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5311790 | The 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 1577578. 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.
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.






