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Leonards, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Cable town. It lies in ZIP code area 54821. It stands on Big Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cable quadrangle. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Leonards within Bayfield 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Leonards between 1994 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRULE NUMBER 3
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBALL PARK FIRE
14 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRIVER BOTTOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Leonards: 19 occurrences, 12 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
August Voigt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cable Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cable Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crest View Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Darrell Krouse Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ellen W. Miller Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elmer E. Gruel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Florence Dempsey Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gilbert F. Rasmussen Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gilbert F. Rasmussen Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonards in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 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 2025Thunderstorm WindLeonards-A 12-inch diameter live and healthy oak tree was snapped.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLeonards-There were numerous trees down along Sunset Road west of Cable.

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Radspur0.7 miles9
Cable3.1 miles9
Lake Owen7.6 miles13
Lake Owen (historical)7.8 miles13
Drummond12.0 miles13
Namekagon14.9 miles12
Grand View17.7 miles9
Sutherland20.0 miles11

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 LeonardsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6526142The 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 1579645. 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.