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La Pointe, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It lies in ZIP code area 54850. The Survey maps it on the Bayfield quadrangle.

La Pointe within Ashland County

On record in La Pointe

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of La Pointe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINSTON PROPERTY
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApostle Islands National LakeshoreBASSWOOD1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of La Pointe: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
F. L. Wolfe Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Pointe in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLa Pointe-Numerous trees were blown down on Madeline Island.
June 2020HailLa Pointe-no account filed
June 2018HailLa Pointe-no account filed
October 2004HailLa Pointe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Middleport0.6 miles10
Old Fort1.7 miles10
Odanah12.7 miles11
Ashland13.9 miles13
White River17.1 miles11
Birch20.0 miles11
Marengo24.7 miles11
Sanborn24.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1567683. 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.