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Maplehurst, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Maplehurst town. It lies in ZIP code area 54498. It stands on Diamond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lublin quadrangle. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.

Maplehurst within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Maplehurst between 1992 and 2019, burning about 197 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
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 1993Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSOYBEAN
7 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Maplehurst: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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
Black River Gravel Pit #8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pine Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Robertson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tomczyk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maplehurst in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2007HailMaplehurst$5,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMaplehurst$3,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees southwest of Medford.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMaplehurst$500Trees were blown down near Larson Drive west-southwest of Medford.
October 2023Heavy RainMaplehurst-Broadcast media reported 2.25 inches of rainfall near Dorchester.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMaplehurst-A wind gust of 61 mph was measured by a private weather station southwest of Stetsonville.
May 2018HailMaplehurst-Based on a Facebook video, quarter sized hail was estimated to have fallen near Medford.
April 2011HailMaplehurst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Lublin4.7 miles7
Bellinger8.6 miles6
Perkinstown10.0 miles9
Polley10.5 miles7
Gilman11.6 miles7
Hughey13.4 miles9
Murat13.5 miles8
Hannibal15.4 miles7

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 MaplehurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6754035The 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 1840326. 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.