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Eagleton, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Eagle Point town. It stands on McCann Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bloomer quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Eagleton within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Eagleton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5619
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesANGRY FORESTER FIRE
12 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWERLINE SPRUCE
12 July 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2019Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBARN
4 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.3 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Eagleton: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 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
5th 124 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
A.E. Stelter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bloomer Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chippewa County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Koch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagleton in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindEagleton-The local emergency manager, and several other county officials indicated that the path of blown down trees continued across portions of northern, and central Chippewa County between Bloomer, and Otter Lake in the east.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEagleton-Several trees and a fence were damaged north of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
July 2015Heavy RainEagleton-A measured rainfall report of 5.67 inches occurred east of Eagleton.
June 2021HailEagleton-no account filed
July 2020HailEagleton-no account filed
August 2004HailEagleton-no account filed

Every storm 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
Eagle Point2.0 miles9
Tilden4.5 miles9
Bloomer5.9 miles9
Jim Falls6.3 miles9
Norma7.6 miles14
Anson7.7 miles14
Chippewa Falls8.5 miles15
Irvine9.4 miles15

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 EagletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5325398The 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 1564263. 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.