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Dunbar, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Dunbar town. It lies in ZIP code area 54119. The Survey maps it on the Dunbar quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Dunbar within Marinette County

Population over time

2 figures

Dunbar grew from 50 to 61 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201050
202061+11 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 1992 and 2018, burning about 98 acres in total. 2 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 burning14
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEMORY'S BLAZE
12 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance8.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1998Natural23 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOLE CREEK FIRE
29 June 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dunbar: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them 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
Blueberry Point Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moon Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mountain Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Onemile Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Onemile Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Railroad Pond Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Soo Line Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunbar in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDunbar$1,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDunbar-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in the Dunbar area.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindDunbar-Trees were blown onto power lines by straight-line thunderstorm winds.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDunbar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Pembine9.6 miles11
Goodman9.7 miles9
Beecher10.3 miles11
Beecher Lake10.8 miles11
Niagara12.5 miles11
Amberg13.9 miles11
Athelstane16.2 miles8
Cedarville16.9 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 DunbarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5314127The 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 1564171. 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.