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Hauer, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sand Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54876. It stands on Hauer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hauer quadrangle. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.

Hauer 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Hauer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks2

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
19 September 2005Naturalunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyCOUDERAY
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCELEBRATION
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hauer: 6 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Beverly Lake Quartzite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Billy Boy Flowage Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Blackberry Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Camp Fire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Couderay River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Devils Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hungry 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hauer in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
September 2014HailHauer-The hail was reported from Long Lake.

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
Edgewater4.3 miles8
Stone Lake5.2 miles8
Yarnell5.7 miles8
Lemington6.4 miles9
Reserve6.7 miles9
Wooddale8.1 miles8
Couderay8.1 miles9
Northwoods Beach8.3 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 HauerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5682324The 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 1577631. 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.