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Earl, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Springbrook town. It lies in ZIP code area 54875. It stands on Whalen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trego quadrangle. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Earl within Washburn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Earl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use22
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON
12 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTREGO TROUBLE
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPIZZA TRAIN 1
20 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVEAZIE 2
20 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWEST
19 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOAK HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washburn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Earl: 14 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Chauncey Jacobsen Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chauncey Jacobsen Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Douglas M. Strunk Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fred & Lucille Bohne Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
G. M. Thompson Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gerald Campbell Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hannah Doyne Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Haugen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lavern Graham Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Namekagon River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washburn County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earl in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindEarl-Photos were received of trees snapped around six feet above the ground between Earl and Springbrook.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEarl-A tree was down across the railroad tracks about 2 miles from Springbrook.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindEarl-A tree was down blocking three quarters of the road on County Highway E near Earl.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEarl-Photos were received showing a large white pine tree and a large oak tree that were broken during the storm.
May 2022HailEarl-no account filed
June 2008HailEarl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washburn 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
Trego3.3 miles8
Springbrook4.6 miles8
Lampson5.8 miles8
Spooner9.1 miles8
Stanberry9.7 miles9
Chicago Junction10.0 miles8
Madge11.5 miles8
Beaver Brook11.6 miles8

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 EarlAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5325691The 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 1564266. 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.