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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gillett quadrangle1:62500
- 1974 USGS Berry Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Menominee Tribe | HORSEPEN |
| 27 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 32 AND WILLOW RD. FIRE |
| 26 July 2000 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Hail | Hayes | $2,250,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suring | 2.7 miles | 6 | |
| Breed | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Frostville | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hintz | 5.8 miles | 6 | |
| Logan | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bonita | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Underhill | 8.8 miles | 6 | |
| Hickory Corners | 9.0 miles | 9 |
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 Hayes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5686568 | The 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.



