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Lemington, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Couderay town. It lies in ZIP code area 54835. The Survey maps it on the Couderay quadrangle. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Lemington within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Lemington between 1993 and 2019, burning about 106 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Other causes3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2005Naturalunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyCOUDERAY
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAJKA RD
7 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2002Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lemington: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them 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
Beverly Lake Quartzite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Atherton Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beaver Brook Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blackberry Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chafer Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chafer Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Devils Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Poradish Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Summit Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Summit Lake Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemington in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flash 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
July 2020Flash FloodLemington-Water was over one of the lanes of State Highway 70/27 near the village of Couderay, but the road was still passable.
July 2011HailLemington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Couderay3.5 miles9
Yarnell4.2 miles8
Meteor4.9 miles8
Hauer6.4 miles8
Weirgor6.6 miles8
Edgewater6.6 miles8
Radisson7.0 miles8
Wooddale7.7 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 LemingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6521159The 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 1577696. 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.