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Jersey City, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Tomahawk City. It lies in ZIP code area 54487. It stands on Tomahawk River. The Survey maps it on the Tomahawk quadrangle.

Jersey City within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Jersey City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Natural2
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
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTANNERY ROAD
21 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCRASS ROAD
14 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHEISEN ROAD
31 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2010Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPIRIT HAVEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jersey City: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Hawk PropsectZinc, CopperProspectChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Electrum, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Tomahawk PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tomahawk Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jersey City in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 1 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
April 2017HailJersey City-Quarter size hail fell near Tomahawk.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJersey City-Thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines near County Road A.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Tomahawk1.3 miles9
West Kraft2.7 miles9
Bradley3.8 miles10
Heafford Junction4.5 miles12
Gilbert4.6 miles9
McCord9.5 miles10
Irma10.1 miles9
Harrison12.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1567167. 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.