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Hollister, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wolf River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54491. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.

Hollister within Langlade 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.

In the county-history sources

1,407 words on this township

History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wolf River Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wolf River Town - 1,407 words.

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hollister between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Natural1

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 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLOST ISLAND
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestJESSIE LAKE
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 1994Natural1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE OPTIC
18 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCOLD SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hollister: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
White Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollister in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2011: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindHollister-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and very large branches at White Lake and at Silver Birch Ranch.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHollister-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines throughout Hollister.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHollister-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Langlade5.1 miles9
Lily5.2 miles10
Four Corners6.2 miles8
White Lake6.4 miles8
Freeman7.3 miles10
Elton7.5 miles8
Choate9.1 miles11
Pickerel10.0 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 HollisterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5881631The 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 1579470. 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.