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Edgewater, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Edgewater town. It lies in ZIP code area 54817. It stands on Benson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgewater quadrangle. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Edgewater within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater between 1993 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
3 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKY
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSUNSET
6 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer 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 Edgewater: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers. 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
Blackberry Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Shore Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Shore Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Knuteson Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Summit Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Summit Lake Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewater in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindEdgewater1 killed, 3 hurtStrong thunderstorm winds blew over an oak tree onto an occupied camper, killing one of the occupants and injuring 3 others. Numerous trees were blown over roadways in the area as well.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-Several trees reported down and on a local county road on the northwest side of Lake Chetac.
July 2011HailEdgewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Yarnell3.1 miles8
Wooddale4.0 miles8
Hauer4.3 miles8
Lemington6.6 miles9
Meteor6.9 miles8
Stone Lake7.9 miles8
Couderay9.7 miles9
Reserve10.7 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 EdgewaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5337837The 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 1564444. 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.