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.
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.
Plummer Mine Headframelisted 1997 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1940 USGS Upson quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Upson quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Iron Belt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Ironwood quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 1995Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 July 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 June 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montreal Mine | Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | 1886 | |
| Pence Mine | Iron, Nickel | Past Producer | 1888, 1912 | |
| Flood Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Montreal Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Atlantic Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1848, 1887, 1913 | |
| Atlantic Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1887 | |
| Cary Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1848, 1886, 1950 | |
| Cary Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1886 | |
| Hennepin-Snyder | Iron | Past Producer | 1888 | |
| Hennepin-Snyder Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1848, 1888, 1906 |
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Hail | Hoyt | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hoyt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5922897 | The 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.





