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Eureka Center, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eureka town. It lies in ZIP code area 54024. The Survey maps it on the Cushing quadrangle. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Eureka Center within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 July 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSaint Croix National Scenic RiverWILD MT
1 June 1992Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2066
2 May 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSaint Croix National Scenic RiverPAINT MINE WF
20 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2055
14 April 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Eureka Center: 9 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Nd Unnamed Prospect Near MilltowCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near MilltowCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near MilltownCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near MilltownCopperOccurrence
Beede Lake Trail Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dwight Parmeter Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Edward G McKenzie Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Emery Chouinard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eureka Center Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
James D Gray Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka Center in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 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
July 1999HailEureka Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Cushing4.0 miles16
Wolf Creek4.8 miles16
Centuria6.7 miles22
Saint Croix Falls7.1 miles23
Lamar7.4 miles22
Milltown7.6 miles16
West Denmark8.5 miles16
Atlas9.1 miles16

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 Eureka CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5411157The 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 1564710. 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.