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Hogarty, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Plover town. It stands on Skulen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hogarty quadrangle. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.

Hogarty within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

48 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Hogarty between 1995 and 2019, burning about 207 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
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
5 August 1995Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #1
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #3
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #2
22 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER PARK
9 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWARM SPRING DAY
6 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRADAR ALERT
4 June 2019Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hogarty: 12 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Reef Gold DepositGoldProspectChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrrhotite
Arthur Weden Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dale Keen Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hogarty Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mildred Walters Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Granite Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snell Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Strycharski Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Woodland Drive Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Donald Thompson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hogarty in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindHogarty3 hurtThunderstorm winds downed numerous trees near Hogarty. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Hogarty$200,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHogarty$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHogarty-Thunderstorm winds blew over an RV in the town of Harrison. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHogarty-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in the town of Easton. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHogarty-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Hogarty. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2016HailHogarty-A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail as it passed through the Hogarty area.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHogarty-Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down on a road.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Hogarty-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHogarty-no account filed
May 1998HailHogarty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Snell2.3 miles11
Johnson2.9 miles11
Kalinke4.8 miles11
Glandon7.6 miles11
Hatley10.0 miles9
Sunset10.0 miles11
Norrie10.3 miles9
Ringle11.5 miles9

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 HogartyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5877133The 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 1566521. 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.