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Itasca, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Superior City. It lies in ZIP code area 54880. It stands on Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle.

Itasca within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Itasca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning19
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53-2
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53 -1
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Debris and open burning2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Itasca: 2 unknowns, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Superior Refinery--Murphy Oil CoSulfurPlant
Largro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mclean DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Smith QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Superior Lime PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Itasca in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2012FloodItasca$21,000,000The Nemadji River gage, at Superior, normally between 4 and 5 feet, rose to 20 feet early in the morning of June 20th. The river reached a record stage of 27.91 feet at 100 AM on June 21st, then fell back below 20 feet about midnight the night of June 22nd. Most of the runoff, resulting in the high stages, came from excessively heavy rain on Carlton County MN flowing downstream. Many roads were flooded in Superior and surrounding areas from the flood of the river and the excessive rainfall. Many buildings at he University of Wisconsin in Superior (UWS) was flooded. Uninsured damage at UWS was $8-10 million. Damage to homes was estimated at $6.3 million. Damage to businesses was estimated at $4 million.
April 2026HailItasca-no account filed
July 2021HailItasca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
South Itasca0.9 miles16
Allouez1.4 miles16
Parkland1.9 miles9
East End3.7 miles16
Cutter3.8 miles9
Ambridge4.3 miles16
Central Park4.4 miles16
South Superior4.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1567046. 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.