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Lymantown, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Park Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 54552. The Survey maps it on the Park Falls quadrangle.

Lymantown within Price County

On record in Lymantown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Lymantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural2
Fireworks1
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
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin 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

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lymantown: 13 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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
Burtle Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Butternut Lake Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Butternut Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fifield Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krucky Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeshore Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maple Ridge Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old 182 Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Park Falls Gravel Pit # 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Park Falls Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lymantown in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLymantown-Several trees in a wind row were snapped, but not all the trees were healthy.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLymantown-A tree was down along with a power line across the road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLymantown-Multiple trees were down and a barn window was blown in.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLymantown-Reports of both trees and powerlines down near Park Falls.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLymantown-A tree that was blown over also took down a power cable near Agenda and North River Roads.
July 2019HailLymantown-no account filed
August 2018HailLymantown-no account filed
May 2007HailLymantown-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
Park Falls0.6 miles11
Fifield4.1 miles11
Kaiser (historical)5.5 miles9
Coolidge (historical)8.8 miles11
Kennedy11.0 miles12
Lugerville11.3 miles10
Phillips16.6 miles10
Cranberry Lake21.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122598319The 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 1568838. 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.