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Hub City, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Henrietta town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It stands on Soules Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockbridge quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Hub City within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hub City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 2 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 burning33
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Other causes2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRED2
19 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRED1
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAYBINE
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKABOTA
20 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCEMETERY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hub City: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Mcglynn QuarryStoneUnknown
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joyce QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snyder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hub City in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2000HailHub City$15,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHub City$2,000Trees were blown down in Rockbridge.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHub City$1,000A 60 mph wind gust was reported at Highway 80 and County Road CC.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHub City$250Trees were blown down along Hawkins Creek.

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Rockbridge1.6 miles12
Henrietta (historical)3.3 miles11
Buck Creek3.5 miles12
Woodstock3.8 miles12
Corwin (historical)4.5 miles11
Bunker Hill5.5 miles12
Gillingham5.6 miles12
Bloom City6.0 miles12

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 Hub CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5926656The 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 1578595. 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.