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Hazelhurst, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hazelhurst town. It lies in ZIP code area 54531. The Survey maps it on the Hazelhurst quadrangle. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

Hazelhurst within Oneida County

On record in Hazelhurst

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

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.

Fires near this place

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Hazelhurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Other causes3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BAY FIRE
5 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEACON
5 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDOOLITTLE FIREWORKS
5 July 2001Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Hazelhurst: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 producer. 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
Blue Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clawson Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazelhurst Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Katherine Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minocqua Township Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sutton Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazelhurst in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$250,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$12,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Hazelhurst. One of the trees crushed a car.
May 1994HailHazelhurst$5,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,000no account filed
June 1997LightningHazelhurst$1,000no account filed
April 2026HailHazelhurst-Half dollar size hail fell in Hazelhurst. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees west of Hazelhurst near Camp 9 Road.
August 2014HailHazelhurst-Nickel size hail fell at Willow Reservoir.
September 2014HailHazelhurst-Quarter size hail fell north of Hazelhurst.
July 2012HailHazelhurst-Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail at Hazelhurst.
August 2010HailHazelhurst-Nickel size hail fell at Hazelhurst.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-Trees near Highway 51 were blown down by straight-line thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-no account filed
April 2002HailHazelhurst-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-no account filed
May 1998HailHazelhurst-no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Rantz1.7 miles12
Sunflower4.4 miles12
Minocqua4.5 miles12
Woodruff6.3 miles12
Lake Tomahawk7.0 miles12
Goodnow8.1 miles12
Harshaw10.5 miles12
McNaughton10.9 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 HazelhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5688081The 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 1566237. 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.