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Herbster, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54844. It stands on Cranberry River. The Survey maps it on the Herbster quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Herbster within Bayfield County

On record in Herbster

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Herbster grew from 104 to 130 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010104
2020130+26 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Herbster between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKLAUNG RD
29 July 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2020Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAPARTMENT
24 May 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLENAWEE RD FIRE
10 May 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Herbster: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them 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
A. T. Guyer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H. J. Ehlers Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herbster in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2024Flash FloodHerbster1 hurt, $50,000A 5 foot wide section of State Highway 13 just east of Herbster washed out when the culvert underneath failed. A car drove into the washout and the driver was trapped but only had minor injuries.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHerbster-A tree was down at the spotter's location.
May 2012HailHerbster-The ground was completely white after the storm.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHerbster-A 75 foot tall, two foot diameter pine tree was snapped off near its base.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHerbster-A tree was snapped by strong winds.
July 2011HailHerbster-no account filed
September 2007HailHerbster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Bark Point5.4 miles8
Port Wing7.8 miles10
Cornucopia8.6 miles12
Topside19.1 miles12
Oulu19.9 miles10
Iron River20.1 miles13
Moquah20.4 miles12
Sand Bay21.1 miles10

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 HerbsterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5691363The 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 1566314. 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.