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Lugerville, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Flambeau town. It lies in ZIP code area 54555. It stands on Mount Pelee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lugerville quadrangle. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Lugerville within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Lugerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
17 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDEBOTH FIRE
9 July 2006Debris and open burning1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVAIL FIRE
29 June 2010Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSEVERT FIRE
2 June 2013Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHORT CUT
2 June 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lugerville: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. 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
Clark County OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clark County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Old 13 Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lugerville in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Lugerville$4,000A weak tornado developed and tracked roughly along Price Lakes Road for slightly over 3 miles, before dissipating near Le Tourneau Lake. The damage consisted of primarily trees and large tree limbs blown down or snapped in a convergent pattern along the road. Some large pine trees were snapped. Structural damage was very minor, with one house experiencing some roof damage and a blown in window. [DI 28 (TS), DOD 4, LB-EXP, Est Gust 90-95mph].
April 2017HailLugerville-Hailstones up to the size of dimes covered the deck.
April 2017HailLugerville-The hailstones ranged from the size of peas to dimes.
August 2015HailLugerville-There were a variety of hail sizes with golf ball size being the largest.
September 2014HailLugerville-There was dime to nickel size hail.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLugerville-Numerous large trees and tree limbs were blown down and snapped off. This damage was associated with a corridor of non-tornadic wind damage that extended from near County Highway W in far eastern Sawyer County into extreme western Price County along Price Lakes Road. A weak tornado then developed immediately northeast of this downburst wind damage along Price Lakes Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLugerville-Numerous large trees and tree limbs were blown down. This was associated with non-tornadic thunderstorm winds, and extended from near Long Lake northeast to Highway 70 in Price County.
May 2024HailLugerville-no account filed
May 2024HailLugerville-no account filed
July 2011HailLugerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Coolidge (historical)5.8 miles11
Phillips7.8 miles10
Fifield8.5 miles11
Kaiser (historical)9.6 miles9
Lymantown11.3 miles11
Park Falls11.5 miles11
Kennedy12.3 miles12
Cranberry Lake12.6 miles10

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 LugervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6699769The 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 1568799. 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.