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Martell, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Martell town. It lies in ZIP code area 54767. The Survey maps it on the Martell quadrangle. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Martell within Pierce County

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

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Martell in 1993, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/incendiarism1

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
6 October 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Martell: 12 occurrences, 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Slate, Dimension. 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
Pierce County OperationsSlate, DimensionProducer
Rush River Dolomite Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rush River Dolomite Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Clay Corner Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clay Corner Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel Pit Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hillcrest Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hillcrest Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lawton Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lilly Hanson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martell in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindMartell-A ten mile long and three mile wide swath of damaging wind hit far northeast Pierce County. Several hundred trees were knocked down, with many across roads and power lines, and a few on houses and cars. A roof was partially blown off a house two miles southwest of Spring Valley. A barn was blown down four miles west-northwest of Spring Valley.
June 2016Funnel CloudMartell-A storm chaser recorded a funnel cloud for several minutes east of Martell. It was evident that the funnel cloud was only a few hundred feet above the ground. No damage was observed or reported, nor was there any indication of a touchdown on video.
May 2021HailMartell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Viking3.0 miles11
Lawton3.8 miles11
Morton Corner4.8 miles11
El Paso5.0 miles11
Beldenville7.0 miles12
East Ellsworth7.6 miles15
Evergreen Estates8.0 miles15
Olivet8.0 miles11

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 MartellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6774227The 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 1569089. 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.