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Ludington, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ludington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54722. The Survey maps it on the Lake Eau Claire West quadrangle. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Ludington within Eau Claire County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Ludington between 1992 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism6
Other causes5
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1999Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludington in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2016Flash FloodLudington-Flood waters covered Highway 27 and County Highway X near Ludington.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLudington-Power lines were blown down southwest of Ludington.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLudington-Trees were downed, a boat flipped, and siding ripped off one mile north of the intersection of County Highways H and MM.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLudington-A barn was blown down in Ludington Township on County Road XX just south of the Chippewa County line.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLudington-Trees blown over. Estimated windspeed.
June 2021HailLudington-no account filed
April 2002HailLudington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eau Claire 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
Wilson5.6 miles11
Rodell8.2 miles12
Fall Creek9.1 miles14
Augusta10.3 miles12
Hale Corner14.0 miles12
Hay Creek14.5 miles12
Brackett14.8 miles12
Green Acres15.1 miles12

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 LudingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6698797The 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 1568792. 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.

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.