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Lunds, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Waukechon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54166. The Survey maps it on the Lunds quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Lunds within Shawano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Lunds between 1997 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2009Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKING BARREL
16 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOP BOTTLE FIRE
9 May 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCONSERVATION FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lunds: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Limekiln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zimmerman Limekiln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bonduel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ranch Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
River Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rocky Lane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slab City Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slab City Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slab City Creek Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slab City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lunds in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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
August 2013HailLunds-A CO-OP observer reported 1.25 inch diameter hail 4 miles southeast of the town of Shawano.

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Slab City5.5 miles8
Landstad6.0 miles8
Bonduel6.0 miles8
Belle Plaine6.5 miles8
Adams Beach6.6 miles8
Shawano6.6 miles8
Navarino6.7 miles9
Cecil9.1 miles6

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 LundsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6704149The 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 1568809. 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.