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Hoyt, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. The Survey maps it on the Iron Belt quadrangle. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.

Hoyt within Iron County

On record in Hoyt

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hoyt between 1995 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hoyt: 15 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Nickel, Manganese, Iron. 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
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Flood Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Atlantic MineIronPast Producer1848, 1887, 1913
Atlantic MineIronPast Producer1887
Cary MineIronPast Producer1848, 1886, 1950
Cary MineIronPast Producer1886
Hennepin-SnyderIronPast Producer1888
Hennepin-Snyder MineIronPast Producer1848, 1888, 1906

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoyt in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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
June 2018HailHoyt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Iron Belt1.5 miles11
Pence1.5 miles11
Montreal3.1 miles14
Gile4.1 miles14
Germania4.4 miles14
Orva4.6 miles14
Kimball4.9 miles11
Upson6.4 miles11

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 HoytAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5922897The 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 1577649. 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.