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Hertel, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in La Follette town. It lies in ZIP code area 54845. The Survey maps it on the Hertel quadrangle. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.

Hertel within Burnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Hertel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony19
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural6
Other causes5
Smoking4
Fireworks3
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
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMANGELSEN HANK FIRE
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMANGELSON RYE FIRE
27 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHEAT CHAFF FIRE
2 August 1994Arson/incendiarism4.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hertel: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Viola Lake Clay PitClayOccurrence
Atkinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bashaw Brook Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Big Sand Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hertel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Fork Clam River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sommerfeld PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Stellright PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stillrecht PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Burnett County

Storms near this place

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hertel in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 2011LightningHertel1 killedAn eleven year old girl was killed while trying to escape the approaching storm. Lightning struck a tree and the tree fell on the girl, killing her. The tree was so large that it took 20 men to remove it.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHertel$40,000Numerous trees were reported down or snapped. The reporter estimates that 80 plus trees were down on their 90 acre property and neighbors had damage to their home due to trees falling on it.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHertel-A photo was received of an eight inch diameter tree that had been snapped. The observer noted that the tree already had a scar on it.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHertel-Numerous small to medium-sized trees were down with some snapped at the base and others 20 feet up. Photos showed the trees to be down in a narrow swath about 1000 feet wide with trees laying in multiple directions.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHertel-Two trees were completely uprooted with many others snapped in half. A cement block shed had also shifted some due to the wind.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHertel-A few trees were knocked down along Birch Haven Road.
May 2011HailHertel-Hail fell for 30 minutes and was mostly pea to dime size. However, there were hail stones up to 1 inch in diameter. Storm total rainfall was 1.5 inches.
October 2006HailHertel-Hail fell at the corner of Highway 70 and Route H.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Hertel-The tornado briefly touched down near Oak Road. Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2000Flash FloodHertel-A bridge on county highway EE over the Clam River was washed out.
August 2022HailHertel-no account filed
August 2022HailHertel-no account filed
April 2020HailHertel-no account filed
September 2014HailHertel-no account filed
September 2014HailHertel-no account filed
September 2014HailHertel-no account filed
May 2011HailHertel-no account filed
September 2007HailHertel-no account filed
October 2006HailHertel-no account filed
June 2005HailHertel-no account filed
April 2004HailHertel-no account filed
April 2004HailHertel-no account filed
June 2002HailHertel-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHertel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burnett 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
Coomer6.1 miles13
Bashaw6.5 miles13
Timberland9.9 miles13
Siren11.0 miles14
Webster11.2 miles14
Oakland13.6 miles14
Webb Lake14.0 miles8
Yellow Lake14.4 miles14

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 HertelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5744654The 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 1566330. 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.