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Gile, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Montreal City. It lies in ZIP code area 54525. The Survey maps it on the Ironwood quadrangle. It stands 1,496 feet above sea level.

Gile within Iron County

On record in Gile

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Gile between 1993 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
20 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Gile: 21 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Nickel. 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
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flood Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Katie Saari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Koehmstedt Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gile in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGile-A tree collapsed onto powerlines.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGile-There was tree damage from the winds along Highway C in and near Carey.
June 2018Flash FloodGile-Water was flowing over Knight Road were it crosses the Gile Flowage.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGile-Falling trees downed power lines.
June 2024HailGile-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Germania0.7 miles14
Montreal1.1 miles14
Orva1.7 miles14
Hurley2.5 miles14
Pence2.6 miles11
Hoyt4.1 miles11
Van Buskirk5.2 miles14
Iron Belt5.6 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q136365306The 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 1565520. 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.