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Hamburg, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hamburg town. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.

Hamburg within Marathon County

On record in Hamburg

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 2 records

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

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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 burning20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOMBINE 1
22 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOMBINE 2
18 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY A FIRE
10 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hamburg: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 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
Alton Zettler-Athens Sand & Gvl QySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lincoln Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2011Tornado (EF0)Hamburg$258,000A tornado developed about 2 miles north of Hamburg at 6:08 pm CDT (1708 CST) and moved northeast into Lincoln County at 6:10 pm CDT (1710 CST). Pine trees were uprooted and large branches were broken in the path of the storm (DI 28, DOD 2-3). A house sustained damage to its siding (DI 2, DOD 2) and several barns were blown down or lost their roofs (DI 1, DOD 2-3). The average width of the tornado in Marathon County was 100 yards. The tornado reached EF3 intensity in Lincoln County.
March 2016FloodHamburg$2,500Flood waters washed out the intersection of 13th Lane and County Line Road, along the Lincoln County line.
May 2022HailHamburg-Quarter size hail fell near Hamburg.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Hamburg. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHamburg-no account filed
August 1995HailHamburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Emmerich3.0 miles9
Little Chicago3.7 miles9
Naugart5.2 miles9
Rib Falls8.3 miles7
Poniatowski8.7 miles7
Taegesville8.9 miles12
Stettin (historical)9.1 miles7
Athens10.8 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 HamburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714443The 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 1581839. 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.