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Gleason, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Russell town. It lies in ZIP code area 54435. The Survey maps it on the Gleason quadrangle. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.

Gleason within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Gleason between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3

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 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gleason in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 2002Thunderstorm WindGleason$25,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGleason-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree branches in Gleason.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGleason-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in Gleason.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGleason-Thunderstorm winds tore shingles from roofs and left debris on roads in Gleason.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindGleason-no account filed
July 1997HailGleason-no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindGleason-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Bloomville2.0 miles9
Dudley2.5 miles11
Doering5.5 miles11
Dutch Corners5.8 miles12
Irma9.5 miles9
Otis10.8 miles9
Harrison11.6 miles9
Merrill13.3 miles12

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 GleasonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567399The 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 1565555. 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.

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.