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Hegg, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ettrick town. It lies in ZIP code area 54616. It stands on Joe Coulee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hegg quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Hegg within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hegg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 381 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning360 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesETTRICK
20 April 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019021
13 April 1995Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2020Recreation and ceremony13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202018
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803076
20 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMORGAN MARSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Hegg: 8 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Johnson QuarryStoneUnknown
A Brovold Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Beach Corners Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bear Creek Shale Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
E Holte Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
F Sesvold Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
H Grote Shale Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
H Grote Shale Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
K Olson Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
M O Kittleson Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hegg in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020Funnel CloudHegg-A funnel cloud was seen north of Beach Corners.
June 2016HailHegg-Quarter sized hail fell southeast of Blair.

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Beachs Corners2.4 miles13
Chapultepee4.8 miles11
Ettrick4.9 miles11
Blair6.3 miles13
Iduna6.4 miles11
Upper French Creek7.0 miles11
Frenchville8.0 miles11
Butman Corners10.5 miles11

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 HeggAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5698422The 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 1566263. 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.