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Hay Creek, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bridge Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 54722. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Hay Creek within Eau Claire County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

4,181 words on this township

History of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, Past and Present; Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bridge Creek Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bridge Creek Town - 4,181 words.

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Hay Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRANCH ROAD
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire 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
Augusta4.7 miles12
Fairchild6.1 miles12
Rodell9.0 miles12
Hale Corner11.0 miles12
Foster12.6 miles12
Wilson14.5 miles11
Fall Creek14.5 miles14
Nix Corner14.5 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 Hay CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5685765The 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 1566172. 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.