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Langlade, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wolf River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54491. It stands on Rose Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Langlade quadrangle.

Langlade within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

In the county-history sources

1,407 words on this township

History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922 names this settlement in its chapter on Wolf River Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Section 7 is also the site of the frame school erected in 1899. James Lambert and Q. Rose were members of the first school board. Isaac Thornberry erected the first house in the district. The school is located north of highway 64, principal commercial artery to eastern Langlade County from Antigo.

Passage source: History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wolf River Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Langlade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
6 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLOST ISLAND
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestEICKOFF VEHICLE
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestJESSIE LAKE
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE OPTIC
18 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade 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 Langlade: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
White Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langlade in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 3 hail, 2 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLanglade$1,000no account filed
June 2007HailLanglade-Hailstones one to three inches in diameter occurred with the tornadic thunderstorm.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLanglade-Trees down.
June 2007HailLanglade-no account filed
June 2000HailLanglade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
White Lake2.8 miles8
Hollister5.1 miles8
Markton5.9 miles8
Four Corners6.1 miles8
Elton8.3 miles8
Lily10.3 miles10
Freeman12.2 miles10
Sherry Junction13.7 miles8

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 LangladeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6486168The 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 1579627. 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.