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Hines, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hawthorne town. It lies in ZIP code area 54874. The Survey maps it on the South Range quadrangle. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Hines within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Hines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAMAR BILLBOARD
16 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY B/53 FIRE
11 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Hines: 10 occurrences, 7 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Lead. 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
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineCopper, ZincOccurrence
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineNickel, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Unnamed Prospect Near Flannagan FCopper, LeadOccurrence
Amnicon Falls Station QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Flannagan Fire Tower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
George Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Robert Missine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sam Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
AminiconCopperUnknownChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
CatlinCopperUnknownCopper

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hines in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023HailHines-no account filed
May 2018HailHines-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Middle River1.8 miles8
Hillcrest2.8 miles8
Rockmont3.0 miles8
Hawthorne3.7 miles8
Amnicon Falls4.3 miles8
Wentworth5.5 miles8
Dobie5.6 miles8
South Range6.0 miles8

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 HinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5767016The 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 1577644. 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.