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Kennedy, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54552. It stands on Hay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy quadrangle. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.

Kennedy within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy between 1994 and 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAY BALES
7 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 2013Debris and open burning9.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBASS LAKE RD
1 May 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRACTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kennedy: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Berends QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dog Patch Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dog Patch Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flambeau River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Flambeau River Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Flambeau River Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Flambeau River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flambeau River Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oxbo Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price 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
Kaiser (historical)5.6 miles9
Lymantown11.0 miles11
Park Falls11.6 miles11
Lugerville12.3 miles10
Fifield12.6 miles11
Coolidge (historical)14.9 miles11
Phillips20.1 miles10
Cranberry Lake24.8 miles10

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 KennedyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714502The 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 1579574. 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.