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Hayes, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in How town. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. It stands on Hayes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berry Lake quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Hayes within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Hayes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresMenominee TribeHORSEPEN
27 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 32 AND WILLOW RD. FIRE
26 July 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayes in 1 storm report in 2006: 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 2006HailHayes$2,250,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Suring2.7 miles6
Breed5.1 miles9
Frostville5.2 miles9
Hintz5.8 miles6
Logan6.1 miles9
Bonita8.5 miles9
Underhill8.8 miles6
Hickory Corners9.0 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 HayesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5686568The 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 1579414. 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.