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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.

Dudley 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

58 since 1992

Regional 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Fireworks1
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
8 September 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDudley-Strong winds from thunderstorms downed trees along Highway 17 in eastern Lincoln County.

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
Gleason2.5 miles11
Bloomville4.4 miles9
Doering6.9 miles11
Dutch Corners8.2 miles12
Harrison10.0 miles9
Irma10.7 miles9
Bundy11.5 miles11
Jeffris11.6 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 DudleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5311790The 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.